TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC.

Volume 35 Number 4—Mar ch 2015 TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018

Society Secretary: [email protected] Journal Editor: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.tasfhs.org

Patron: Dr Alison Alexander Fellows: Dr Neil Chick and Mr David Harris

Executive: President Maurice Appleyard (03) 6248 4229 Vice President Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Vice President Society Secretary Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Society Treasurer Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103

Committee: Helen Anderson Betty Bissett Judith Cocker Geoffrey Dean Lucille Gee John Gillham Libby Gillham Julie Kapeller Sue-Ellen McCregan Louise Rainbow

By-laws Coordinator Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Webmaster Robert Tanner (03) 6231 0794 Journal Editor Rosemary Davidson (03) 6424 1343 LWFHA Coordinator Leonie Mickleborough (03) 6223 7948 Members’ Interests Compiler John Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Membership Registrar Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Publications Convenor Beverley Richardson (03) 6225 3292 Public Officer Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Society Sales Officer Maurice Appleyard (03) 6245 9351

Branches of the Society Burnie:PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 [email protected] Hobart:PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 [email protected] Huon:PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 [email protected] Launceston:PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 [email protected] Mersey:PO Box 267 Latrobe Tasmania 7307 [email protected]

Volume 35 Number 4 March 2015 ISSN 0159 0677

Contents From the editor ...... 190 President’s Message ...... 191 Vale Dale Smith ...... 192 Branch Reports ...... 193 An Open Letter to all Members, David Harris ...... 198 Schools’ War Efforts, Betty Jones ...... 199 Blackett Family History, The Anzacs, Yvonne Airey ...... 205 Searching for Private Max Woodberry, Howard Reeves ...... 210 Voices from the Orphan Schools: When the Voices are Silent, Dianne Snowden ..... 215 New Members Interests ...... 217 New Members ...... 218 Annual General Meeting Brochure ...... i–iv Letters to the Editor … ...... 220 The Catherine 1813–1814: An Adventurous Voyage, Anne McMahon ...... 221 John Asbury and the Lemon Syrup Case, Lou Daniels ...... 224 Two Merchants of Hobart Town, Sally Rackham ...... 229 River Derwent Drownings 1900–30, compiled by Laurie Moody ...... 235 St Andrews Presbyterian Church Burial Ground, North Hobart 1829–1872, Leonie Mickleborough ...... 237 Genes on Screen, Vee Maddock ...... 243 What is that Publication About?, Maurice Appleyard ...... 244 Society Sales ...... 246 Library Acquisitions ...... 247

Deadline dates for contributions by 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October

From the editor Journal address

PO Box 326 Rosny Park TAS 7018

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Thank you to those who responded to Articles are welcomed in any format— the call for articles commemorating the handwritten, word processed, on disk or by spirit of ANZAC. There will be more email. Please ensure images are of good appearing in the next issue with further quality. contributions welcome. Deadline dates are: The next issue will be the start of Volume 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October 36 and I would like to take this opport- unity to thank the many regular con- If you wish to contact the author of an tributors. Those who write State, Branch article in Tasmanian Ancestry please email and Library Reports, Vee for Genes on the editor, or write care of the editor, Screen, Maurice for What is that enclosing a stamped envelope and your Publication About? and Colleen Read correspondence will be forwarded. who can always be relied on to keep me up-to-date. The opinions expressed in this journal are By the time this reaches all your letter not necessarily those of the journal boxes I hope some of you have been committee, nor of the Tasmanian Family inspired to write an article as stock is History Society Inc. Responsibility rests with the author of a submitted article, we do becoming depleted. Special thanks to all not intentionally print inaccurate inform- who do continue to send articles on a ation. The society cannot vouch for the regular basis. accuracy of offers for services or goods that I am delighted to be able to include an appear in the journal, or be responsible for advertisement for two new publications the outcome of any contract entered into by Hobart Branch—see page 214. Joyce with an advertiser. The editor reserves the Purtscher’s name will be familiar to right to edit, abridge or reject material. many, both locally, interstate and overseas. These latest books have been © The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are in progress for many years and contain a subject to the provisions of the Copyright fascinating store of information. I even Act and may not be reproduced without discovered some new words. Do you written permission of the editor and author. know the meaning of ‘lumper’ and have you heard of ‘hop itch’? Cover: ‘When visiting the UK in August I took this photograph of the War Memorial at Launceston in Rosemary Davidson the South of England. It had been decorated for celebrations of the start of WW1 and candlelight vigils were held throughout the country at the exact time war was declared. It was quite a moving moment to think that in Launceston in Tasmania are named others of their ‘brothers in arms’ (including several of my own Blackett family) who gave their lives for ‘King and Country’. Lest we forget! Yvonne Airey’, see p.205

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

HIS issue of the journal Branch AGM Meetings will be held in completes thirty-five years of April and nominations for similar offices T Tasmanian Ancestry publications are required. and the Tasmanian Family History I urge members to consider standing for Society (originally Genealogical Society office at branch or society level. of Tasmania) will reach the same age Whilst we continue to thrive through the with the commencement of our next efforts of a number of very dedicated AGM on Saturday 20 June. volunteers, there is always a need for Hosted by Hobart Branch at Swansea, it more helpers to share the load.  will be an excellent opportunity to discover and learn about the family Maurice Appleyard history of this regional area. Full details, including guest speakers and the topic of their presentations, are provided in the registration form contained in this issue. Tasmanian Family The agenda for the AGM will appear in History Society Inc. the next issue. It will also contain the details of two formal ‘notice of motions’ 2015 for alterations to our constitution. Lilian Watson One relates to the Vice-President positions (as mentioned in the last issue) Family History Award and the other is about the appointment of for a Book branch delegates to the Society Executive Meetings. however produced or published on paper, dealing with family or Members are encouraged to support the biographical history and having alterations which are considered by the significant Tasmanian content current executive officers and each of the Entries Close five branches to be of great benefit to the 1 December 2015 modern operation of the Society. Nominations for officer bearers are Further information and entry forms sought for the elected Society positions. available from TFHS Inc. Branch Libraries New officers will need to be found for the positions of President and Vice-President. www.tasfhs.org Our constitution limits the maximum or consecutive time for one person to hold The Secretary PO Box 326 ROSNY PARK office for a period of six years. The TAS 7018 current holders of both positions will email: [email protected] have reached that goal by the time of the AGM.

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VALE DALE SMITH

Passed away at his residence, Port Sorell, formerly of Elizabeth Town. Aged 76 years. Dearly loved and loving husband of Adrianne Loving father of Jo-Anne, Scott, Derek, Marc, Guy, Tamara and Denise. Special “Dale” to 8 grandchildren.

HEN Dale, a retired, a cheeky produced our earlier publications. Dale fellow first entered our library, brought with him the computer expertise Wlittle did we know the extent of and knowledge to enable the branch his input into the Mersey Branch and to members under his supervision and the Tasmanian Family History Society guidance to update the available cemetery Inc. listings and complete the Advocate Dale took stock of our library holdings indexing from 1980 to 2012. and publications, always acknowledging His ideas regarding the producing of the hard work of the members who had quality publications and his upgrading of all the cemetery maps have proved invaluable to the Society, especially Mersey Branch, and the Councils of Devonport, Deloraine, Kentish, Latrobe and Ulverstone. This is the legacy Dale has left for many people, for many years to come. His expertise included teaching courses in ‘Legacy’, a favourite family tree pro- gramme and his talent in producing Wall Charts from family trees. Both Dale and his wife Adrianne were keen members who attended all our social gatherings and outings and contributed their time and energy in making them successful. We are left with a great gap to fill. It was apt that Dale died on Remembrance Day—no way will he be forgotten. 

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BRANCH REPORTS

For those members who have not been Burnie into our Branch Library for a while, we http://www.clients.tas.webnet.com.au/ have a library subscription to ‘The Gen- geneal/burnbranch.htm ealogist’. This is another paid family President Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 history site similar to Ancestry.com. Secretary Ann Bailey (03) 6431 5058 PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 Both these sites are available free to mem- email: [email protected] bers but you will need to book a time at the library. If you are not computer Our monthly workshops literate don’t worry, our Librarian will continued with the last help you to access the site. one held on Saturday, 22 In this age of digital cameras and smart November at the Branch phones with 8 megapixel cameras, we can Library—an introduct- now take many images of family and ion to relational data- friends (including ‘selfies’). We can post bases, using MS Access 2010. these images on Facebook or proudly The four objects of a relational database show on our smart TVs with lovely trans- were covered and hopefully participants itions between images and music sound gained the necessary skills to start con- tracks etc. But where will these images structing their own database. be in fifty or 100 years from now? It is At the time of writing, painting of our now possible to take your digital images into a camera shop and have them pub- library is about to commence. There are lished into a book. These books should still a few walls and areas that were not last longer than a digital image on a smart painted during the last tenant’s occu- phone that one day will cease to work. pancy. Our landlord has kindly provided The experts are predicting the 2000s will the paint and brushes to complete the job. be the period of lost family photos with We have also put some shelving material two generations of images lost. back into service, so we now have much Peter Cocker Branch President needed shelving in the office and an upright set of shelves with a lockable cupboard at the top with transparent slid- Huon ing doors. This will house some of our President Shirley Fletcher (03) 6264 1546 more valuable books. Secretary Libby Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Some time ago one of our members pro- PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 cured eight second hand half hexagon email: [email protected] desks for the branch. These had seen a long period of service in a school and the No report received tops were looking very tired. We now have new tops for these desks. With the new shelving, desks and painting, our library is now a much more comfortable and welcoming place.

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Sunday School’ in the St John’s Park Hobart Precinct in New Town. There were ten http://www.hobart.tasfhs.org such meetings during 2014 and without President: Beverley Richardson exception the speakers were entertaining, email: [email protected] interesting and informative. Secretary: Howard Reeves PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 The speaker at the October meeting was email: [email protected] member Sally Rackham speaking on the All telephone enquiries to (03) 6244 4527 development of a phone app, ‘Hobart Domain Walks’ and the Royal Society As mentioned in prev- Exhibition of 1894. Sally worked on a ious reports, during the phone application for use in navigating year the Branch around sites of historical interest on the offered members ‘one Domain, and around the waterfront in on one’ dedicated Hobart. access to experienced The Exhibition: The International Exhibi- researchers to assist them with breaking tion at Crystal Palace London 1861 was a down family research ‘brickwalls’. huge success and encouraged interest These sessions were popular even with around the world in such events. long-standing family historians and they Tasmania contributed exhibits for the certainly proved to be successful with Exhibition in Paris 1878. In 1883 the many ‘walls’ being broken. These break- Tasmanian Juvenile Exhibition promoted throughs gave many family historians a the skills of young people in trades and new lease of life to pursue further their crafts. The Calcutta exhibition 1883 family histories. A small fee was charged featured exhibits from Tasmania. for this service, and will be offered again Jules Joubert, member of the NSW in 2015. Agricultural Society, and skilled In December the Branch received the entrepreneur, organised the Tasmanian good news that its application for a International Exhibition held in Tasmanian Community Fund grant had Launceston in 1891–92, and Hobart in been successful. The grant will be 1894–95. More than 1000 people bought supplemented by member donations and a season ticket to the three-month will allow the Branch to purchase a new exhibition in Launceston, which had a multi-purpose scanner/copier/printer to passport-style photo of the ticket holder. replace existing, ageing equipment. This An album of these photos is held by the grant was a fitting acknowledgement of State Library of Tasmania, (LINC) a the efforts of committee member Ian wonderful resource for family historians. Cooper, who leads the Branch committee Hobart’s continuing efforts to hold an in seeking out and applying for grants Exhibition, delayed by the banking and open to not-for-profit organizations. property crash in the south east of the Thanks for your efforts, Ian. country, drew encouragement from the General Meetings profit, admittedly small, made by their The Hobart Branch of the Society has northern rivals. It was funded by a continued its regular general meetings shareholding company of local investors, featuring invited speakers on the third with financial support from government. Tuesday evening of the month at ‘The The Domain was the site for the

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Exhibition buildings. There was local Western Front beginning with the conflict opposition to the use of this site, seen as at Fromelles and followed shortly after by encroachment into, and acquisition by the battle at Pozieres and then at Mouquet stealth, of public space, so the structure Farm just a short distance away. The was to be temporary, constructed of 12th Battalion (half Tasmanian, and one timber. A classical Victorian architect- quarter each of SA and WA) was in ural style of building, its humble timber action at both Pozieres and Mouquet construction was embellished with stucco Farm and suffered heavy casualties. The finish. Photographs show a very impres- project is a study of the lives of some of sive main building, which was the Tasmanian men and the contribution completely removed when the Exhibition they had made to Tasmania and the lost finished in the summer of 1895. potential that occurred with their deaths The exhibition featured local agricultural, on the field of battle. manufacturing and trade interests. Andrea provided a biographical profile of Cultural activities were a strong feature two Tasmanians, Ivor Stephen Margetts of the Exhibition era, with a 400 strong and Edward Butler. Margetts was the choir, and brass band providing daily third son of Stephen Margetts, a entertainment for visitors. The new organ Launceston auctioneer. He was educated for St Marys Cathedral made a first at Launceston High School and at 6’ 3” appearance at the Exhibition. A 42- piece was an excellent sportsman in rowing, orchestra, with local, as well as athletics and football. After one year of Melbourne and Sydney musicians, study at the University of Tasmania he brought a much-appreciated level of was offered the position of junior sports entertainment to the city. The first full master at Hutchins School, and continued symphony performed in Tasmania was to play football with Lefroy and also also a feature of the Exhibition. rowed. When called up in 1914 Ivor was Unfortunately the Exhibition did not given leave by Hutchins School and cover costs and was a loss to the joined A Company of the 12th Battalion at shareholders. A small player in the Brighton Camp. He survived the Gallip- world, and the world of Exhibitions, oli landing, and was evacuated. From Hobart did not attract international Gallipoli he moved to France and involvement of any significance. Pozieres which was a much larger Tasmania’s generous involvement in, and conflict than expected. There he received support for, earlier mainland exhibitions a fatal shell wound and was buried on the was not reciprocated, and must have been battlefield. a great disappointment. Edward Lionel Henry (Leo) Butler was Twenty-nine members and guests the son of Edward Henry Butler attended. Report by Christine Spry. (prominent Hobart solicitor) and Fanny At the November meeting, the final Clarke. He enlisted so as not to shirk his meeting for the year, member Andrea responsibilities. In fact he was one of Gerrard spoke on the topic ‘Lost in the thirty-five family members who served in Somme, 1916’. Andrea described the WW1. At 6’ 2” Leo too was an imposing background to a biographical project in man, good sportsman and scholar, being a which she is involved. While Australia student of Hutchins School. He em- lost over 8,000 men at Gallipoli, the barked at Port Melbourne in March 1916, country’s greatest losses occurred on the and travelled to Egypt, Marseilles, and on

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to Pozieres. He died in August 1916 The Society’s Annual General Meeting, from wounds from shell fragments, loss will be held at Swansea on Saturday, 20 of blood and failure of subsequent blood June. Check the centre of this edition for transfusions. the Registration form and the interesting The thirty-one members and guests who Saturday and Sunday programmes. attended enjoyed an end-of-year supper. Publications: Two volumes, 1921–1925 Speakers for 2015 and 1926–1930, Index to The Examiner, To date the following speakers have been new combined editions of BDMs, is now arranged for the General Meetings in 2015 available and work is continuing on this March 17: Maree Ring ‘Our grand- series, up to the 1940 edition. father’s war diary.’ Library: Tuesday 20 January, 10 a.m.– April 21: AGM—Peter O’Hern ‘The 3 p.m.—phone (03) 6344 4034. impact of WW1 on small Tasmanian Other days (except Saturday and communities.’ Sunday), by appointment only. May 19: Ros Escott ‘DNA testing and Check the website for more detail on family history research—journeys of workshops and for a list of publications discovery.’ now available from Launceston Branch. June 16: Roger McNeice ‘Colonial Coinage.’ Howard Reeves Branch Secretary Mersey www.tfhsdev.com President Ros Coss Launceston Secretary Sue-Ellen McCreghan http://www.launceston.tasfhs.org (03) 6428 6328 President Russell Watson (03) 6334 4412 Library (03) 6426 2257 Secretary Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 PO Box 267 Latrobe Tasmania 7307 PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 email: [email protected] secretary: [email protected] Remembrance Day Christmas Dinner: 2014 will be etched in Branch members and the memory of Mersey their partners enjoyed Branch members for a Christmas Dinner at the long time to come as it Colonial’s Old Cane & was the day Dale Smith Quill Room. Thanks to passed away. Dorothy Rodgers for organising. His passing will undoubtedly leave a Workshop: the next Branch workshop great gap to be filled. will be held at the Stables, on Wednesday Dale has been the driving force in the 18 March, the subject—’I rish Research’. production of numerous publications, Please book early. especially those of cemeteries, large and Branch Annual General Meeting: will small, from Deloraine to Ulverstone. be held at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, 21 April at These in particular are the legacy he has the Harry Abbott Scout Hall. Speaker: left for many people for many years to Marion Sargent, ‘Old Cemeteries of come. Launceston’.

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There is still some work to be done before the Central Coast Lawn Cemetery is ready for publication in the New Year. Tasmanian Ancestry Some photography has been undertaken at the Mersey Vale Cemetery, however due to its size, and the need to clear grass and debris from the plaques this project will take much longer than first antici- pated to complete. An appeal has been made for members Volumes 1 to 20 owning edging machines, to assist in the June 1980 to March 2000 removal of grass from the plaques. Tasmanian Ancestry, the Journal of the The indexing of births, deaths and marri- TFHS, (originally known as the ages, as found in the Classified section of Genealogical Society of Tasmania), was the Advocate, has continued with 2010, first published in June 1980 shortly after 2011, 2013 and 2014 all in the pipeline. the formation of the society. Our appeal for assistance from members This DVD covering Volumes 1 to 20 was with some time to spare has been heard digitised by the Hobart Branch of the and we welcome Anne Lowe and Ken Society in 2012–14. Waterman to the ranks. It is in PDF format and is fully Remembrance Day was commemorated searchable. with members attending the official cere- Members who joined after March 2000 mony at Latrobe and with a display of are now able to acquire the 80 back WW1 veterans at Wells IGA Store. issues (hard copy prices total $132) and We continue to co-operate with the the valuable Information they contain. Melrose Progress Association in their Long term members and Family History endeavours to preserve the history of Groups can gain valuable shelf space by their district. The Association members replacing their hardcopy collection with have been conducting interviews with the one DVD. elderly citizens of Melrose while the Society has been researching the Land Available from: Titles of the area. Sales Officer TFHS Inc. PO Box 326 Rosny Park TAS 7018 Mersey Branch members met at the or email [email protected] Lucas Hotel for our Christmas Dinner on 7 December. All Volunteers were pre- $50.00 + $8.35 p&p sented with a Certificate of Appreciation Single-use licence in recognition of their many hours of [Individuals, small Family History Groups] service to the Society and Mersey Branch. A members’ discount applies.

A feature of the occasion was the $75.00 + $8.35 p&p attendance of five present and past Multiple-use licence Presidents—David and Isobel Harris, [Libraries, FH Groups with internal John Dare, Sue-Ellen McCreghan and Servers, etc.] Ros Coss. 

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AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL MEMBERS David Harris, Fellow of the Society (Member No.306)

note with some considerable Committee. The late Denise McNeice concern, the intent, as expressed in having served as VP to Peter Cocker and the ‘Presidents Message’ of the myself as VP to both Anne Bartlett and DecemberI 2014 issue of Tasmanian Anita Swan. Ancestry, of deleting the position of the A relatively simple solution would be to second Vice-President from the Rules of replace the second V.P. on the Executive the Society. with the immediate Past President, a I would like to take this opportunity to system which is current in several reiterate the reasoning behind the present incorporated societies and which ensures level of Office Bearers and Committee a good level of experience is always members (Branch Delegates). available to the Executive. The three main criteria were; In closing I would urge all members to (a) to draw up rules in such a way that consider this matter carefully and to no single Branch could dominate perhaps volunteer to have their names put the affairs of the Society without the forward as an Office Bearer as the assent of at least one other Branch, Society cannot continue to function without the support of the membership.  (b) to ensure that at least two other persons had sufficient experience to be able to step into the President’s role should it become necessary, Carr Villa Memorial Park (c) to ensure that no one person on the Committee had more than one vote Burial and Cremation records on any question. (updated 23 January 2001)

With two voting delegates from each CD-ROM, $50.00 branch and five Office Bearers, the full committee of the Society stands at fifteen Index to Passenger and it would therefore be unusual to have Arrivals and Departures an equality of voting on any issue. From early Launceston newspapers The same methodology is applied to 1829-1865

Branch Committees where four Office CD-ROM, $60.00 Bearers and seven members make up a total of eleven. Available from TFHS Inc. Launceston Branch A precedent exists when, on a number of PO Box 1290 occasions, insufficient nominations were Launceston TAS 7250 received to fill all positions, a Past plus $5.50 p&p President has then filled the second Vice- TFHS Inc. Members less 10% discount, plus $5.50 p&p President role to maintain both the size and the level of experience of the

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SCHOOLS’ WAR EFFORTS Betty Jones (Member No.6032)

LTHOUGH children living in Education Department would not place Tasmania were less affected by obstacles in the way of others who A the 1914–1918 war than those wished to do the same.1 That remained living in countries where the conflict and the sentiment throughout the course of fighting took place, their lives were still the war, as shown by a list of all their changed in a number of ways as a teachers and officers who had been, or consequence of Australia’s participation were still, on duty at the Front at the in World War 1. Schools played a beginning of 1918: significant role in shaping pupils’ John AIREY (Training College), Norman understanding of what was happening ALLISON (New Town), Sydney overseas, in developing a sense of ALLISON (Dundas), Sydney T patriotism, and in stressing the need for ALLWRIGHT (Hastings), Armadale C all to make sacrifices in an effort to play ANDERSON (Cressy), Albert R their part. The aim of this article is to BLACKMORE (Adventure Bay), Elias A provide the reader with a snapshot of BROUGH (Ellendale), Albert G A some of the ways in which that was done. BURING (Wynyard), Roy R BURKE By August 1914, some fourteen (West Devonport), Geoffrey CUMINE Departmental teachers had volunteered (Training College), Gordon E CUN- for active service with the expeditionary NINGHAM (Charles Street), George force. The Director of Education, Mr W T McCOY, addressing teachers in Launceston at that time, stated that the 1 The Examiner, 21 August 1914

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CURRY (Strickland and Rocky Creek), Rupert STEPHENS (Tyenna), Roy Bertie J J DAVIE (Hobart State High STOTT (Wesley Vale), Athol O School), David M DAVIS, Major STUART (Osterley), William H TAY- (Inspector), Gordon DOCKING (Training LOR (Rocky Cape), Eustace TERRY College), Charles P EDE (returned to (Queenstown), Byron J THOMPSON duty), Horace EDE (Launceston State (Ouse), Donald TRIBOLET (Wellington High School), William J FAHEY (West Square), Reginald WALTERS (Beacons- Devonport), Ronald K JONES field), Royden WARNER (Invermay), (Richmond), Quinton FRANKCOMB William H WATTERS (Beaconsfield), (Training College), Dick B FRANKLIN David WHITE (Beaconsfield), Horace (Marrawah), Ralph R FRENCH (East WINBURN (East Launceston), George Zeehan), George D GLEADOW VAUGHAN (Training College), James (Collinsvale), Hubert GLOVER (Laun- YORK (Burnie).2 ceston State High School), William T In addition to the foregoing names, the GREAVES (Training College), Joseph A Department included a Roll of Honor, GREEN (Goulburn Street), John listing the names of those who had given HEALEY (Stowport), Cornelius HOPE their lives in the service of the Empire: (West Devonport), Bert JACKSON Donald BROWN (Magnet), Gerald (Hagley), Murray JONES (returned to BUTLER (Training College), Leslie duty), Ronald K JONES (Richmond), CHAMBERS (Training College), Rupert Thomas A LAY (Queenstown), Thomas CHAMLEY (Training College), A R LEE (Training College), Stanley Gordon GIBSON (East Zeehan), Colin LONDON (East Devonport), Desmond GLASGOW (Balfour), Walter LIVING- MACE (Nabowla), Charles W MAC- STONE (Rosebery), Cecil SALISBURY FARLANE (Glen Dhu), James MARTIN (Albuera Street), Alfred TARRANT (Lower Barrington), Roland J MASON (Invermay), Roderick WEAVER (Educa- (Trowutta), Robert MATTHEWS (Eliza- tion Office), Clement WOOLLEY (Dairy beth Street), Walter H McGOUGH Plains), Alex A WORNER (Training (Education Office), George J McLEOD College)3 (Albuera Street), Douglas McNAB Space does not permit the provision of (Mooreville Road), James McQUITTY individual biographical details on those (Elizabeth Street), Aubrey P MEERS mentioned. However, given the theme of (Queenstown), Walter T MILLER articles in this edition of the journal, it (Charles Street), Algernon MORGAN seems appropriate to make room for one, (Guildford Junction), William C a brave teacher-soldier killed in action MORRIS (East Launceston), Cyril J during the landing at Gallipoli in April MULLIGAN (returned to duty), John J 1915. O’LOUGHLIN (South Springfield), Lancelot PARRY (West Devonport), Colin Glasgow (1894–1915) was born at Fred PARSONS (Nabowla), Rupert A Casino, New South Wales, only son of RAFFERTY (Sprent), Leslie B READ solicitor, Lewis Henry Glasgow and his (Goulburn Street), James ROSS (New wife Mabel Fanny Campbell, (née MAY). Town), Walter W SEABROOK (Educa- Ten years after the death of her husband tion Office), George SNARE (Trowutta), Fred SHACKCLOTH (Tunnel Bay), 2 Raymond SOLOMON (returned to duty), The Educational Record, 15 January 1918 3 ibid

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in 1897, Mrs Glasgow married Joseph addition, the first, second and third Patrick MYERS in New South Wales, classes were to be taught half-time. This and at some stage thereafter moved to was expected to release approximately Elliott, Tasmania. Mr Glasgow com- fifty teachers from the town schools to fill menced his career with the Tasmanian vacancies in country schools. An appeal Education Department in October 1912 had been made to married women who when he underwent a short training had previously been teachers to offer course at the East Launceston Practicing their services for the period of the war, School. From January to August 1913 he but there were barely half a dozen was Teacher in Charge at Detention State responses.5 School, a small country school situated Early in the war period, necessary on the North West Coast beyond modifications were made to teaching Wynyard. His next appointment, lasting content. Ordinary geography about a year, was to the West Coast lessons were mining settlement at Balfour. The temporarily suspended Department gave him and attention was indefinite leave when devoted largely to the he left for service at geography of Europe, the Front in August and such other parts of 1914. Mr Glasgow the world as were was killed in action th connected in any way as a member of the 12 Infantry with the war. Teachers Battalion at the age of a little over 21 emphasised the lessons on in April 1915 during the landing at the flag and patriotism, Gallipoli. He was one of twenty not with any intention of men who had been engaged to creating amongst the keep a body of Turks fighting children a feeling of whilst the rest of his company dug jingoism, but simply to themselves in. He had been held in point out and emphasise high esteem by his comrades in their duty at that critical arms for his straight-forward manly time in the nation’s character and his conspicuous 4 existence. Teaching the courage. Mr Glasgow is commemorated children the National Anthems of the on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, allies was also encouraged, in order that Turkey. they might be used on appropriate It seems that during 1914 and 1915 the occasions, sung always in a reverent and Department managed to cope with proper spirit. The teachers’ chief duty staffing issues, despite the changes was to influence public opinion through brought about by enlistments. In Septem- the children as to the causes and the ber 1916, however, a statement was reasons for the war.6 Decorations at released that all children under the age of annual school events such as concerts and seven were to be excluded from schools end-of-year gatherings followed patriotic until the prevailing conditions ended. In

5 North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay 4 Obituary, The Educational Record, 15 Times, 18 September 1916 February 1916 6 Daily Telegraph, 25 August 1914

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themes, with flags and streamers in red, Chronicle print the names of children white and blue predominating. Songs from Alcomie State School who had such as Three Cheers for the Red, White contributed to the Belgian Relief Fund and Blue, Australia Will Be There, Keep (which had been set up by allied countries the Home Fires Burning, and Tipperary two years previously to supply relief for became sure crowd pleasers at such people in German-occupied Belgium): celebrations. Charlie ABBLITT, Leila ABBLITT, Schools played an important role in Dave AINSLIE, Fred AINSLIE, Albert helping to raise money for the war effort, COOK, Ivy COOK, May DAVIES, with school communities fully embracing Charlie FORWARD, Frank HARD- their allegiance to the war cause. WICK, Willie HARDWICK, Chris Towards the end of August 1914, the JOHN, Emma JOHN, Ida JOHN, Eileen Minister of Education, Mr J A LYONS, KAY, Lily KAY, Hilda MARCH, Vera sanctioned the organisation of a State MARCH, Elsie MARTHICK, Mavis schools’ patriotic fund to supplement that MARTHICK, Vera MARTHICK, Alex being raised by the Mayors, munici- McPHEE, Mervyn McPHEE, Arthur palities, and the Red Cross Society. The MEDWIN, Ivy MEDWIN, Reggie MED- proceeds were to be equally divided WIN, Vernon MEDWIN, Dan O’HAL- between those funds. It was expected LORAN, Clarence REID, Len REID, that a large sum would be raised, chiefly Nellie REID, Raynor REID, Don by small donations from parents, who ROBERTSON, Allen SPINKS, Nellie SPINKS, Selina SPINKS, George otherwise would not have the opportunity 10 to subscribe.7 WILLIS. [Author’s note: The listing is a bonus in that the Admission Registers By early 1915, it was evident a number of for that school, which operated between schools were making contributions to the 1916 and 1938, have not survived.] funds in lieu of end-of-year prizes. Village Lane State School near Somerset, War Savings Certificates were introduced for example, donated £2.6.4 on that to schools in July 1917, the scheme count.8 encouraging parents to subscribe what they could afford on a weekly basis to In January 1916, the Education Depart- school banks. The money subscribed was ment announced that money and goods to to be returned to the subscriber in the the value of over £120,000 had been form of certificates which were to contributed for patriotic purposes through increase in value from 17s. 6d. to 20s. efforts of public school children and (£1) over the course of three years. The teachers in the year just completed.9 Department hoped that £20,000 would be Newspapers frequently listed the names 11 raised in 12 months, but by September and amounts contributed by individual that year the amount had already reached staff members and schools, but individual 12 £25,000. Head Teachers proudly pupil names were not commonly inc- announced how much money had been luded. In August 1916, therefore, it was banked by their schools. In November unusual to see the Circular Head 1917, Mr R S THORNE of Franklin State

7 ibid 8 North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay 10 Circular Head Chronicle, 2 August 1916 Times, 15 March 1915 11 The Examiner, 7 July 1917 9 Daily Telegraph, 5 January 1916 12 Daily Telegraph, 12 September 1917

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School stated he had deposited £1,158 to visited the school and presented that the credit of his school, the eighth highest young lady with a handsome work basket amount in the State.13 and Princess Mary Gift Book. The gifts Schools also played a role in the were accompanied by a few well-chosen collection of trench comforts for soldiers. and encouraging words, meant to stim- The children of Pattersonia, Deddington ulate the young people to spend their spare moments in profitable and at the and Pine Road State Schools, for 17 example, were all acknowledged as doing same time useful work. so in 1916.14 In 1918, Private W The Department did not co-ordinate a GRIFFIN, Australian Field Battery, wrote State-wide approach for schools to a letter from ‘Somewhere in France’ to acknowledge the first anniversary of thank a child at the Dairy Plains State Anzac Day in 1916. Instead, local com- School near Deloraine for the gift box he munities took the initiative. At Zeehan, had received containing cigarettes, for example, an Anzac Day committee tobacco and a tin of fish.15 arranged for a procession of children in Many senior girls helped out by fancy dress to be included in a sewing and knitting basic items parade with the Brass Band and for soldiers after arrangements several decorated motor cars were made in 1914 by the on the afternoon of 3 May. Director of Education to have 200 The Education Department shirts made by the elder girls agreed to a half-holiday for attending the Hobart State children attending the local schools, the material being schools. A first class moving found by the ladies of the Red picture program was screened to Cross Society.16 Similarly, a packed audience of juveniles local patriotic support groups at the Theatre Royal at the formed knitting circles as many at conclusion, and motor car joy home looked for ways to help those rides provided by George DUNKLEY and H WILSON overseas. Patterns for socks, vests, 18 mittens and mufflers for soldiers capped off a memorable day. circulated. To stimulate the young At Glen Dhu State School in in this work, in 1915 the Launceston, a much more Victoria League offered prizes sombre commemorative session to pupils attending schools for was held on the Thursday the best knitted pair of socks. afternoon prior to Anzac Day Pupils of Ulverstone State School entered marked by suitable hymns, addresses into the competition, and among those and lessons. The returned soldiers from whose work was favorably considered by the hospital were invited and twelve attended. They were entertained later to the judges was that of Miss Alice 19 MULLIGAN. Mrs NICHOLAS, presi- afternoon tea by the female teachers. dent of the Latrobe branch of the League,

17 North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay 13 Huon Times, 30 November 1917 Times, 3 November 1915 14 The Examiner, 20 July 1916 18 Zeehan and Dundas Herald, 22 April 15 Daily Telegraph, 6 September 1918 1916 16 Daily Telegraph, 25 August 1914 19 Daily Telegraph, 22 April 1916

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By 1917, the Department had a plan in place, one that aimed to highlight commemoration rather than celebration. Normal lessons were to be conducted in ORAL HISTORY the morning, while the first hour of the afternoon could be devoted to special WORKSHOP lessons connected with the war. Parents and friends of the school could be invited Saturday 23 May 2015 to be present at 2:30, when a suitable 10:00 am – 4:45 pm at program, consisting of patriotic songs and recitations and addresses by prominent Glenorchy LINC citizens or returned Anzacs, might be given. It was hoped that the addresses conducted by would dwell upon the sacrifices of Jill Cassidy Australia’s men, their loyal devotion even unto death, and their splendid achieve- President of Oral History ments; also upon Australia’s debt and Tasmania solemn responsibility to them and their families, and upon everyone’s grief at the Learn how to interview your great losses suffered, but also upon proud relatives, and how to ensure your recognition of their splendid worth. If arrangements could be made for a bugler descendants can hear their voices. to be present, the ceremony might There will be a demonstration of a fittingly conclude by the sounding of the digital recorder. Last Post. The children were to be informed of the significance of this before they proceeded to the school Cost (includes lunch): ground. During the sounding of the call, $50 non-members, $40 members the audience was to stand reverently, and, on its conclusion, disperse quietly.20 Oral History Tasmania, $30 students World War 1 left behind a legacy of sorrow that was felt for generations. Scarcely a family in Australia was left untouched in some way. Tasmanians can Contact take pride in the manner in which their Jill Cassidy on ancestors who were involved with schools then made such important 0418 178 098 or contributions towards helping at that significant time of need.  [email protected]

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BLACKETT FAMILY HISTORY THE ANZACS Yvonne Airey (Member 5230)

1 Howard BLACKETT KIA1 and Margaret (née MADDEN) (b.circa ‘2 curios, Bible, charm, card, hand- 1841 NSW?; died 1909 Launceston Tas- kerchief’—so read the official AIF mania). Thus neither parent was alive when any of the family signed up, their ‘inventory of effects of the late no. 369 nd Pte H Blackett, 12 Batt.’ delivered to his older brother William Alexander 2 next of kin in one brown paper parcel. taking on the mantle as ‘next-of-kin’. To his descendants it is a stark reminder Graduating as a teacher in July 1904, of just one of the thousands of our young Howard was a farmer, single, of Irish- men who swore to town via Stanley in Tasmania when he was one of the first to join the Expedit- well and truly serve our Sovereign Lord ionary Force on 28 August 1914 as a the King in the Australian Imperial Force ... until the end of the war ... and that I Private in the 12 Battalion C Company, will resist His Majesty’s enemies and third supply Brigade. The unit embarked cause His Majesty’s peace to be kept and from Hobart, on board HMAT A2 maintained; and that I will in all matters Geelong on 20 October 1914. appertaining to my service faithfully On 2 May 1915, less than six months discharge my duty according to law. SO later, he was killed in action at Gaba Tepe HELP ME GOD. on Gallipoli in Turkey and his bones still The only ‘picture’ I have of my great lie there in the soils of the peninsula. He uncle is the description of his features on was just 28 years old. enlistment: Howard Blackett’s name can be found on Height 5 feet 8½ inches, chest measure- panel 35, on the Lone Pine Memorial at ments 35–37 inches; complexion dark, the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac Cove, eyes brown, hair black. His family called the main Australian Memorial on him Ted. Gallipoli. Examining medical officer Major BUT- He is listed among the 3268 Australians LER found Howard suffered from none and 456 New Zealanders who died and of a list of conditions which would have have no known grave, along with the 960 ruled him out of being fit for active Australians and 252 New Zealanders service. buried at sea after evacuation. Born on 14 October 1886 at Port Sorell Howard’s name can also be found in (near Devonport) Tasmania, the last of four- panel 65 of the Roll of Honour at the teen children born to gold miner turned Australian War Memorial in Canberra Wesleyan Bush Missionary William Alex- and on the Stanley War Memorial in his ander Blackett (b.circa1832, I cannot yet home town of Stanley, the small fishing prove where; died 1895 East Devonport) village on the north-west coast of Tasmania.

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On Thursday, 17 June 1915 the Hobart Described as an orchardist on enlistment, Mercury listed him as one of eleven on it is rather poignant to note that Horace the 39th casualty list to be killed in action Raymond was born in Launceston in at the Dardanelles. 1897 on 25 April, the day we now com- It was a sad time for his brother listed as memorate as ANZAC Day. next of kin. William’s own sons also en- Back home, his name is on the Cenotaph listed and were war casualties: Horace in a Launceston Park off Paterson Street Raymond KIA in France and William and also located at panel 21 in the Com- Alexander 3rd, known as Alec, who was memorative area at the Australian War blinded in France, while a sister Alice Memorial in Canberra. Maud was a nurse whose vision was 3 William Alexander Blackett 3rd affected by her war service in France. Horace Raymond Blackett’s older brother 2 Horace Raymond Blackett KIA William Alexander 3rd (known as Alec) Deaths on Active Service: Blackett— was a clerk before he enlisted on 17 July Officially reported that Driver Horace 1915 and joined the 1st AIF (service Raymond Blackett First Divisional number 3685) to France. Ammunition Column Headquarters, late He was wounded in battle at Ypres on 20 Army Service Corps, enlisted New South Wales, was killed in action 17th June July 1916, receiving gunshot wounds 1918. Aged 21 years and two months.2 which led to the loss of his right eye and the loss of sight in his left. This stark announcement sums up the life of 1399 Dvr Horace Raymond Blackett, On 17 October 1916 he was in the second younger son of William Alexander Black- London General Hospital in Chelsea when ett 2nd and Alpha (née FRENCH) of he came to the notice of St Dunstan’s for Launceston. the Blind. Three days later he was under their care and records from St Dunstan’s Although records do not detail exactly (now Blind Veterans UK) show that where Horace lost his life, he died during a shortly after arriving at the main hostel in joint UK/Australian action near Frechen- Regent’s Park London he went to their court and lies in the Communal Cemetery ‘house’ in Queen’s Road Brighton for a there—one of forty-nine Australian month. This was used for those who soldiers and eight from UK. His cousin, needed some additional time for Sergeant R KERKHAM of Summer Hill, 3 recuperation prior to undertaking training Sydney, attended his funeral. in Regent’s Park. Frechencourt is a village and commune in When Alec returned to Regent’s Park he the Department of the Somme, in the learned typewriting and Braille reading valley of the Hallue, two miles north of and writing (these were essentially seen Querrieu on the Amiens-Albert main as core skills and almost all the men there road. The nearest railway station is at would have learnt them) passing his tests Daours, on the main line from Paris and in them all. He also gained second class Amiens to Arras and Lille. certificates in poultry farming and joinery. 2 Launceston Examiner 13 July 1918 He left the hostel on 15 February 1918 to 3 Sgt Kerkham’s parents were Sydney and travel home to Tasmania Grace Kerkham of 3 Lorne Street Summer Hill.

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In May 1918 his sister (unnamed) wrote wedding luncheon with relatives and to St Dunstan’s to report he was ‘well and intimate friends they honeymooned in happy’. Twenty-four years later he wrote Melbourne and Sydney. of his ‘fond memories of St Dunstan’s’ in Testament to the esteem in which they that organisation’s Review. were held ‘the presents were many and Such was Alec’s make-up that he went on beautiful’ said the wedding report. to fully embrace the teachings at St Duns- Alec was then the ‘only surviving son’ of tan’s and became a successful poultry Mr and Mrs W A Blackett 2nd of Eversley farmer at his home in Hill Street, in Hill Street; Gladys was the only Launceston. daughter of Mr and Mr W E Brown of He was the first blind man to become a Mon Roy in Elphin Road. Freemason in Tasmania (in 1923) becom- His wife seems to have been a wonderful ing a life member of the Empire Masonic support and source of encouragement to Lodge and also a member of the Army Alec. With her mother she did much and Navy Lodge. He was Tasmanian fundraising for returned service personnel representative for the Blinded Soldiers and hosted bridge and tea parties for the Association, a vice president of that likes of refugee children. The couple had group and the Young Diggers’ Associa- no children of their own. tion and was active in the Blind Society In spite of his handicap, Alec was, like all in Tasmania (established 1 May 1887), his family, extremely interested in sport, becoming its treasurer. while Solo whist was his favourite indoor In 1937 Alec received a Federal Award— pastime. a special medal instituted to commemor- Alec’s ill-health was to continue until he ate the Coronation of King George V1 died at Launceston at the age of 57 on 11 and Queen Elizabeth following the March 1954. abdication of the King’s brother, Edward V111. Alec was one of seventy-five 4 Nurse Alice Maude Blackett Tasmanians so honoured and joined Staff Nurse Alice Maude Blackett (born 90,279 others across the British Empire. 19 July 1878, Launceston; died 20 May From 1927–1953, he continued his hobby 1947, Melbourne Victoria) having trained of gardening and was well-known espec- at the Lyell District Hospital in Tasmania. ially for the champion gladioli he grew. Sister Blackett was on active service as a His many achievements in this field are Staff Nurse in Egypt on 9 November well recorded in the Examiner of the 1915 when she enlisted, going on to serve time. In February 1949 he was reported at Marseilles, then Wimeraux in France, as being ‘too ill to attend the show and and later in England, with the 2nd Austra- his exhibits were arranged by his wife’. lian General Hospital Special Reinforce- He probably never saw in detail his ments. champion bloom— Sunkist, an apricot Marseilles was the port where the wound- pink gladioli with rich cream petals. ed from the Dardanelles and Ottoman Alec had married Gladys Augusta BROWN fronts were taken to be tended. on 25 October 1927 in what was, Wimeraux (near Bologna) was the HQ of according to the newspaper report of the the Queen Mary Army Auxiliary Corps time, ‘a quiet but pretty wedding’, at the and an important hospital centre. In the Anglican Church, Longford. After a Wimeraux Cemetery (now administered

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under the Commonwealth War Graves for the work she did on that occasion Commission) lie 2,847 Commonwealth alone the community would be ever soldiers. Amongst them is Lt Col John grateful to Matron Blackett. The story McCRAE, author of the enduring poem was well known that within a few days In Flanders Field. the whole town was stricken. Both doctors and all the nurses except the Sister Alice was affected by gas and Matron and one probationer were ill. invalided home on 14 September 1918 With the aid of volunteers, almost arriving with a contingent of sick and entirely untrained, she managed to run wounded soldiers on the steamer Loon- the institution so efficiently that not one gana. On 17 November 1918, she was of the ordinary patients contracted influ- discharged with ‘defective vision’. enza. When the hospital was filled the In the Paterson Street Church in Launces- Matron may have been seen driving ton where they worshipped as children round visiting the worst cases and pres- and their father ministered, War Memor- cribing treatment. More hospital accom- ial Plaques bear the names of Howard, modation being essential, she was one of Alex and ‘Sister’ Blackett.4 the first at the Imperial Hotel, directing operations there.5 Alice Maude (for much of her Army In August 1919 the Mount Lyell Comp- career her second name was spelt Maud) any had handed over the Imperial Hotel went back to working in civilian hospitals building as a temporary hospital, under when she was discharged, but the war the control of Matron Blackett from was to catch up with her again in the form Queenstown Hospital and assisted by of the Influenza outbreak of 1919. members of the Red Cross.6 At a public farewell held at Queenstown Matron Blackett and Sister Jones left Hospital to her as Matron and her off- Queenstown to take charge of the Leven- sider, Sister Clara F JONES, in June bank Private Hospital in Ulverstone. In 1922, reference was made to the splendid 1931 an advertisement in the Advocate work and self-sacrifice of the nursing announced fees for surgical, medical and sisters during the war and the apprecia- maternity cases were ‘reduced to three tion expressed by many diggers who and four and a half guineas weekly.’ owed their quick and complete recovery (Was this because it was during the to the efficient care of Matron Blackett Depression?) while on active service in the Launceston Hospital. Alice retired to St Kilda in Melbourne in the 1940s and died there on 20 May 1947. Many Tasmanian newspapers reported She was cremated and today a rose bush the appreciation was blooms over her remains at the Spring- loud and clear for services rendered in the vale Botanical Cemetery.7 last three years, probably the most trying in the history of the hospital. 5 Mortimer Charles Blackett It was recounted that shortly after their MBE Mil arrival at the hospital, the influenza Born Cephas Augustine Mortimer at epidemic broke out and Franklin on 28 January 1881, he was the

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family’s only member to enlist in the Mort was awarded the MBE Mil, Boer War. announced in the Third Supplement of On 22 January 1902, six days before his the London Gazette of 4 June 1918 twenty-first birthday, ‘Mort’ signed on in (p.6719). Hobart as a member of the Common- His mention in despatches stated: wealth Contingent for Service in South his administrative ability is of a very high Africa (Boer War). He was ‘Attestation order. He is a very conscientious and no. 1241’, described as being 5 feet 9½ hard working officer. His work has inches in height, with 38 inch chest, dark always been entirely satisfactory both to complexion, grey eyes, black hair and the Commanding Officer and myself. with a scar on the right side of his right Mort returned to his job on the Star leg. He gave his religion as Wesleyan Johannesburg, where he rose to be the and his mother, Margaret of Cataract Hill, Racing Editor (he also accompanied the Launceston Tasmania as his next of kin. South African cricket and rugby teams as Mort was an unmarried journalist. a reporter on tours in Australia and New His photo was published along with the Zealand). Mort died on 10 August 1938 others in The Tasmanian Mail of 22 Feb- of acute pancreatitis at the age of 57. He ruary 1902, thus dispelling the inform- is buried at Brixton Cemetery in Johan- ation in his obituaries that he had left nesburg. He never married. with a New Zealand contingent. As a Private in the 1st Battalion, Mort Lest we forget: my Blackett family embarked on HM Transport Manchester certainly did their duty ‘For God and Merchant on 16 February 1902. Country’ during WW1. The unit disbanded 10 August 1902 and This continued during WW2 with my Mort remained in Johannesburg, joining own father, Frank Blackett receiving the the literary staff of the Star newspaper. Military Medal for bravery in the field at He joined the Natal Light Horse in South Alamein. But that is a story for another West Africa as a lieutenant in the Natal time! Light Horse, raised in August 1914 and God willing, I intend to be at the ANZAC was wounded at the Battle of Gibeon on services on 25 April 2015 in Launceston 27 April 1915. to honour their sacrifices.  On 12 February 1916 Mortimer Charles ALL ENDS Blackett enlisted for service abroad in the Australian Imperial Force. He was a Lieutenant and Adjutant and joined the My grateful thanks to Ros and Muriel of rd 3 HQ Inf Base Depot. His previous TFHS Inc. Launceston Branch; Helen service was given as eight months Anglo- Doxford-Harris, Rob Baker—Information Boer War, Transvaal Volunteers three and Archives Officer, Blind Veterans UK years and Natal Light Horse (German formerly St Dunstan’s (www.blindveter South-West Africa) one year. ans.org.uk), Stephanie Geyser in South He rose to the rank of Captain and served Africa (my eyes and ears on the ground in on the headquarters staff of General South Africa for researching ‘Mort’ for me) and the wonderful mine of information that MONASH as Staff Captain of a Training is TROVE. Brigade AIF.

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SEARCHING FOR PRIVATE MAX WOODBERRY Howard Reeves (Member No.6121)

S we approach the centenary of Not all the Tasmanians killed in the War the Gallipoli landing the focus of have commemorative plaques and trees A many family historians will, no on the Soldiers Avenue but those doubt, turn to their ancestors who enlisted honoured, in the main, had some connec- for World War 1 and, more poignantly, to tion with Hobart or southern Tasmania. those who served and fell at Gallipoli. Therein lies something of a mystery. My interest to revisit such Why is there a com- ancestors was piqued by a memorative plaque and story in the 21 July 2013 tree for this Deloraine boy edition of The Sunday Max Woodberry? What Tasmanian about tree was his connection with plantings and commem- Hobart? orative plaque additions to But first the family con- the Soldiers Memorial nection. Max Llewellyn Avenue on Hobart’s Woodberry was my Queen’s Domain. The maternal grandmother’s article indicated that an nephew; my mother’s first additional thirty-five trees cousin. My grandmother, were to be planted and Flora Ann HUETT (née plaques unveiled on 11 Woodberry) was the November 2013 to honour youngest of fifteen Tasmanian World War 1 children (twelve males veterans who died serving and three females) born to their country. These new their son John Woodberry trees and plaques on the and Harriett Alice Aug- Avenue, it was reported, usta BONNER. Max was would bring the total to M L Woodbury born at Deloraine on 6 more than 500. October 18931 to Septimus Walter Among the list of thirty-five new names Woodberry and Franceska SEELIG. He was Max WOODBERRY. The Wood- was the third born of eight children with berry branch of my family history has not two older brothers—Arnold Lambert W been a line I have pursued to any great and Eric Maitland W—as well as three extent, but my recollection that a number younger sisters Ray Greta W, Doris of Woodberry boys enlisted for WW1, Winifred W and Ila Dorien W and two and that some did not survive, prompted younger brothers Vivian Albert W and my return to this branch of the tree, to Karl Lynden W. confirm the family link and to seek details of the war service of Max and his relatives. 1 RGD33-1-75, Image 149

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According to war service records (acces- A Casualty Form—Active Service Form sed through the National Archives of shows the following details.2 Australia website) 1253 Private Max 2-5-15 Missing Dardanelles 25/28-5-15 Llewellyn Woodberry enlisted at Pont- 7-11-15 Now wounded and Missing ville on 17 September 1914, a month Anzac 25/28-5-15 short of his twenty-first birthday. His 5-6-16 Previously reported Missing brother Vivian, 1252 Acting Corporal Now reported Killed in Action Vivian Albert Woodberry aged 18, Gallipoli 25-4-15 enlisted at Pontville six days earlier. Given the chaos of the Gallipoli 4736 Gunner Eric Maitland landing and the action that Woodberry, aged 22, enlisted followed it is not surprising at Claremont on 17 June that early casualties were 1915. The eldest brother, first listed as ‘Missing’. It Arnold, was in New is difficult to imagine how Zealand at outbreak of musters were managed WW1 and was not and paperwork was allowed to return to completed in those early Australia to enlist. days at Gallipoli. And, 23/961 Private Arnold what is surprising is the Lambert Woodberry extent of the paperwork joined the New Zealand associated with Pte Max Expeditionary Force at Woodberry, albeit taking Trentham NZ on 30 May into account the duplication 1915. Four brothers at war. and triplication of some of it. In the thirteen months Private Max Woodberry was th between the Landing and June assigned to the 12 Australian st 1916 his file includes Infantry Battalion 1 sixty pages of official Reinforcement of the Vivian Albert Woodberry AIF records, pieces of Australian Imperial Force. correspondence between the AIF and his The unit embarked from Melbourne on parents pertaining to his welfare; and no board HMAT A32 Themistocles three fewer than thirty-seven pieces of corres- days before Christmas Day 1914. pondence generated by the Red Cross3 in Onboard in the same unit was his brother their search for Max. Acting Corporal Vivian Woodberry, a rd Apart from the chaotic circumstances of gunner in the 3 Field Artillery Brigade. the early days after the Landing, closure The route taken by Themistocles and the on the whereabouts and the ultimate subsequent path of Max Woodberry to acknowledgement of the death of Max the Anzac Day landing at Gallipoli is were delayed by repeated eye witness work in progress. But the records show ‘sightings’ of Max in various medical that Max embarked from Alexandria on treatment centres. 2 March 1915 onboard the Devanha, one of the first troop ships to have its troops disembark on lifeboats in darkness to 2 National Archives of Australia: B2455 what has become known as Anzac Cove. Max Woodberry 3 Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau, 1914–18 War 1DRL/0428

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He was carrying sandbags sometime in Vivian. The AIF Court of Inquiry held June at Tasmanian Post at Anzac when he on 5 June 1916 concluded Max Llewellyn got a bullet in the mouth from a sniper. Woodberry died on the 25th day of April Informant saw him go off to the dressing 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. station and believes he is now in England.4 There are few more poignant pieces of correspondence in the files of Max than a Witness was with Woodberry when he letter to Max’s mother, Franceska, dated was hit in the mouth by a bullet, which 17 November 1917: came out the back of his neck. A trench was being made at the time and he was The kit bag, bearing no name, which was one of the men to whom on hand at the A.I.F Stores in London, we were handing the soil. has recently been The place was behind identified as the late Pte what is known as Woodberry’s property and Tasman’s Post. He was a package of personal removed on a stretcher, effects that were contained and it was considered by therein has been dispatch- the Doctor that he would ed to Defence Department, live.5 for transmission to Mr. S. Woodberry, Deloraine, Such correspondence went Tasmania, the legatee on for more than a year. named in the late soldier’s At least nine hospitals in will. England were approached, The package in question seeking records of Max. was transmitted to Mr. S. All nine responses were in Woodberry on 16.10.17.6 the negative. The con- clusion was that Max And the detail of the Woodberry died at Galli- inventory? poli on Day 1. The Eric Maitland Woodberry Curios, Bathing cap, ‘sightings’ of Max and Testament, Gospel, Arabic related correspondence were about his book, 2 Church services, Tie clip, 2 th Military books, 2 brushes, Wrist watch, brother, 1252 Pte V A Woodberry, 12 7 Battalion. Vivian suffered a gunshot Razor. wound to his mouth at Dardanelles and The body of Max Woodberry was not survived. It was Vivian who the found. There is no known grave. Pres- eyewitnesses had fought alongside, seen umably he was buried by comrades on the hit by a sniper and seen on a stretcher. battlefield, perhaps on the ceasefire day, Records show he was wounded on 4 June when as Scottish-Australian singer- 1915; admitted to King Genghis Hospital songwriter Eric Bogle wrote: in London on 5 September 1915 and But the band played Waltzing Matilda, embarked for Australia on 22 April 1916. when we stopped to bury our slain. The file was closed when the mistaken identity was revealed and confirmed by 6 War Record, MaxWoodberry. Item 12306 17 November 1917 7 Inventory of Effects of—The Late 1253 4 Red Cross File, dated 3.12.15 Pte Woodberry.M 12th Btn A.I.F. 5 Red Cross File, dated 21.1.16 [Package 13088]

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We buried ours, and the Turks buried having served in Egypt, Gallipoli and the theirs, then we started all over again.8 Western Front. On his return to Perhaps he is the Unknown Soldier in a Tasmania he moved to Hobart and war memorial somewhere in the world. became an active member of the Hobart Whatever the case, his memory lives on Civil Patrol and completed his working through a memorial at the Lone Pine life as a doorman/greeter at the Elizabeth Memorial in Gallipoli, and the Soldiers Street branch of the Commonwealth Memorial Avenue in Hobart. Bank, still bearing his facial scar. We now know that brothers Eric and So why is there a memorial to Max Arnold enlisted after Max had been Llewellyn Woodberry on the Soldiers killed. Did they know at their time of Memorial Avenue? The obvious answer enlistment that Max was missing in is because his name is on the Roll of action? Probably not. All three brothers Honour at the Hobart Town Hall. That returned home. 4736 Gunner Eric begs the next question: Why is his name Woodberry, 3rd Field there? The most likely Artillery Brigade (Re- reason is that his name inforcement 8), who was put forward to the did not enlist until 17 Hobart City Council by June 1915 took over his brother Vivian, his father Septimus’ whose ‘appearances’ in jewellery shop in Del- medical centres during oraine. 23/961 Arnold the War confused com- Lambert Woodberry rades, leading them to was discharged from believe that Max was a the NZEF on 17 Jan- survivor of the Gallipoli uary 1919. Both Eric Landing. and Arnold suffered Vivian probably put from gassing during Max’s name forward to the War. Arnold re- honour his fallen turned to Tasmania and brother. ‘There but for established an orchard the Grace of God go I.’ in the Tamar Valley. Despite the gunshot Arnold Lambert Woodberry wound in the jaw and Acknowledgements repatriation to Australia, this was not the Conversations with Arnold Woodberry’s end of the war service for 1252 Gunner daughter Barbara STOKMAN provided Vivian Albert Woodberry. At the age of detail on Arnold’s life. 20 years and 8 months he re-enlisted (Service Number 37229) at Claremont in Dianne HUETT’s family research provided Tasmania and returned to the conflict in family details and dates about the Woodberry family. Europe. His war service concluded when he returned to Australia 12 April 1919 The work of indexers for family historians is invaluable. The late Wendy KNOLLE was a TFHS Inc. member who compiled 8 several indexes pertaining to WW1 and And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda. WW2 servicemen and women, including Eric Bogle

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Index to Photographs of WW1 Servicemen and Women in Tas Weekly Magazines Vol 1: Courier Weekly (2nd Ed.) This index led TWO NEW INDEXES me to the photographs of the four to add to the list of publications

Woodberry brothers accompanying this compiled by Joyce Purtscher article. Without such indexes such photographs might forever be ‘lost’ to Notes from the Hobart relatives and family historians. Wendy BENEVOLENT SOCIETY bequeathed the publications to the Hobart 1858–1914 Minute Books Branch and this publication is still available and about to be digitised by LINC. Her other indexes are: Index to Photographs of WW1 Servicemen and Women in Tasmanian Weekly Magazines Vol 2: Tasmanian Mail (2nd Ed.) Index to News Items and Obituaries of WW1 of Servicemen and Women in Tasmanian Weekly Magazines Vol 1:

Tasmanian Mail 202 pages with multiple entries Index to News Items and Obituaries of for the aged and families requesting aid WW1 of Servicemen and Women in with names and ages of children, Tasmania Weekly Magazines Vol 2: Weekly addresses and reason for request Courier $30.00 + $13.40 p&p Index to News Items, Obituaries and Photographs of WW2 Servicemen and Notes from the Women in Tasmanian Newspapers KINGBOROUGH POLICE The Examiner: 1939–1940, 1941, Jan 1942- MAGISTRATE LETTERBOOKS June 1943, Jul 1943-Mar 1946. 1855–1875 and 1873–1888 concerning charitable allowances

Postscript As part of the centenary of the Gallipoli Landing on 25 April 2015, Max Llewellyn Woodberry’s name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on the following dates and times (subject to alteration); Wednesday 22 April 2015 at 24 pages with over 150 families 11:40 p.m., Saturday 6 June 2015 at 6:11 requesting aid including a.m., Saturday 18 July 2015 at 6:00 a.m., letters to and from magistrates

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VOICES FROM THE ORPHAN SCHOOLS WHEN THE VOICES ARE SILENT … Dianne Snowden (Member No.910)

N 8 June 1858, two young child- TICK, Brighton, in a Congregational ren were admitted to the Orphan service on 8 November 1874. Witnesses O School. Their names were Selina were George Bantick and Cecilia Bantick.6 BUTLER, aged 5 and her brother Edward, Selina (née Butler) and William Ward aged 2. No names were recorded for the had several children, including parents of the children but it was noted 1875 William Thomas Ward Hobart7 that their father was dead and their 1878 Tasman Ward New Norfolk8 mother was ‘insane’ and in the Asylum at 1880 Ada Beatrice Ward New Norfolk9 New Norfolk. The children were Catholic 1883 Albert William Edward Ward and according to one record, they were on Portland10 Colonial Funds, which implies they were 1 1886 Marcus Alexander William Ward born in the colony. In another record, Portland11 when Selina was transferred from the 1889 John Howard Ward Portland12 Infant School, she was recorded as an 13 1892 Selina Pearl Ward Ringarooma orphan and on Imperial Funds.2 Who were these children? 6 Edward, aged two years and three months, TAHO, RGD37/1/33 1874/23 Selina died of chronic hydrocephalus at the Butler and William Ward 7 TAHO, RGD33/1/11 Hobart 1875/1394 Queen’s Orphan Schools on 22 August 3 William Thomas Ward. Father, mariner; 1858. Bridgewater Selina was transferred on 2 January 1859 8 TAHO, RGD33/1/56 New Norfolk ‘to the Female School’.4 The section 1878/1243 Tasman Ward. Father, where information is for discharged from mariner; informed by letter from father, the Orphan School, is blank5. Bridgewater. 9 TAHO, RGD33/1/8 New Norfolk A search in the New Norfolk district 1880/1841 Ada Beatrice Ward. Father, around the date the children were labourer; informed by letter by father, admitted to the Orphan Schools (8 June Bridgewater. 1858) was not successful. 10 TAHO, RGD33/1/63 Portland 1884/2508 Selina Butler married William WARD, a Albert Edward William. Father, miner; boatman, in the house of George BAN- informed by letter from mother, Thomas Plains. 11 TAHO, RGD33/1/65 Portland 1886/2529 1 TAHO, SWD6/1/1 p.1 No.653 (Selina), Marcus Alexander William. Father, a No.654 (Edward); TAHO, SWD28/1/2 miner; informed by letter from mother, p.47 (Selina Butler) Weldborough. 2 TAHO, SWD28/1/1 p.47 (Selina Butler) 12 TAHO, RGD33/1/68 Portland 1889/2731 3 TAHO, RGD35/1/5 Hobart 1858/1085 John Howard Ward. Father, a miner; Edward Butler (indexed as Butter); TAHO, informed by letter from mother, Moorina. SWD6/1// p.17 No.654 Edward Butler 13 TAHO, RGD33/1/74 Ringarooma 1892/ 4 TAHO, SWD6/1/1 p.1 No.653 Selina 2162 Selina Pearl Ward (‘Peare’ on index). Butler Father William Howard Ward, a miner; 5 TAHO, SWD28/1/2 p.47 (Selina Butler) informed by letter from mother, Moorina.

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Selina Ward, aged 81, died on 22 Dec- convict on the Martin Luther was in fact ember 1933 at her home in Alfred Street, Margaret Butler, not Mary; she gave birth Queenstown.14 Her daughter, Selina to a child in the Cascades Female Factory Pearl Ward married Edward McMAHON on 1 August 1853.20 Eliza Butler, an and lived in Queenstown, where their ‘orphan school girl’; nearly two, died at seven children were born.15 the Orphan School on 30 June 1855 from 21 None of this later history sheds light on teething. Margaret’s conduct record the origins of Selina and Edward Butler. states the child was Mary Butler who died Two other Butler children were admitted at the Orphan School on 30 June 1855. to the Orphan School with no details of Catherine Butler or Pool is known to their parents recorded: Sarah Butler was have had four children with James Pool: three when she was admitted on 19 June Charles, Fanny, Mary Ann and John. 1860. She was discharged on 9 March Their father applied for all four children 1872 to James KEATING, Harrington to be admitted to the Orphan Schools but Street.16 Robert Butler was admitted, aged only two, Charles and Fanny, were admit- two, on 8 September 1858 and discharged ted. Mary Ann, aged 9 and John aged 2 to his mother, ‘free’ on 29 March 1859. remained with their father. Charles Pool, A child named Sarah Butler was born to aged six, was admitted on 5 February Ann Butler at the New Norfolk Asylum 1863 because his mother was in the on 30 March 1856 but at this stage it is ‘hospital for insane persons’; he was difficult to say whether she was the child discharged in 1864. His younger sister admitted to the Orphan Schools.17 Fanny aged three was admitted on the same date; she was three.22 It has been suggested the children’s mother was Catherine Butler or POOL. Cath- Catherine was admitted to the New Nor- erine, who was tried in Cork, arrived on folk Asylum on 26 January 1863 and was discharged in December. She was re- the Australasia in 1849 when she was 26. 23 There is no evidence she brought children admitted on 27 July 1866. Catherine with her. While serving her sentence, she Butler or Poole, a pauper aged 62, died of acute bronchitis at New Norfolk on 12 gave birth to a child on 25 August 1853 24 and just over a year later married fellow October 1890. Aged 62. convict James Pool.18 Perhaps a reader will have the missing Cowley suggests Catherine’s eldest child pieces of the puzzle which might solve  was Eliza but the Orphan Schools data- the mystery of the Butler children. base lists the child Eliza as the daughter of Mary Butler Martin Luther.19 The transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849, Research 14 The Mercury 28 December 1933 p.1 Tasmania, 2005 pp.174–75. 15 www.orphanschool.org.au: information www.orphanschool.org.au Eliza Butler from descendant Bronwyn Smith 20 TAHO, RGD41/1/35 no.1201 Margaret 16 www.orphanschool.org.au: Sarah Butler Butler Martin Luther 1852 17 TAHO, RGD33/1/34 New Norfolk 21 TAHO, RGD35/1/5 Hobart 1855/42 Eliza 1856/647 Sarah Ann Butler Butler 18 TAHO, CON14/1/24 No.1102 Catherine 22 TAHO, SWD26/1/6 [image 83–89] Butler Australasia 1849 23 Cowley p.213 19 Trudy Mae Cowley, A Drift of Derwent 24 TAHO, RGD35/1/59 New Norfolk Ducks. Lives of 200 female Irish convicts 1890/1017 Catherine Poole or Butler

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ...

NFORMATION regarding two pro- records online and type up the details jects of interest has been sent to our they contain. society. Both are seeking volunteers. We are hoping you will assist us in I recruiting volunteers by publicising the I am writing to Prosecution Project and its website inform you of through your organisations network of the recent contacts. launch of a new Yours sincerely, Mark Finnane website that

will allow com- munity and family historians to better The second Research Study—An explore and understand Australia’s Exploration of the Motives and criminal past. The site is the product of Historical Understanding of Family an ongoing research project being History Researchers, a unique Australian conducted by a team of legal historians at study conducted by Emma Shaw, a PhD Griffith University to investigate the candidate from the University of evolution of the criminal trial across the Newcastle, under the supervision of Dr nineteenth and twentieth century in Robert Parkes (principal supervisor) and Australia. Part of this work, which is Dr Debra Donnelly (co-supervisor). This being supported by the Australian study seeks to explore why people are Research Council, involves the engaging with family history and what digitisation of criminal records held by they learn as a result. Australia’s various state archives into a single database. Participation in this study is an oppor- tunity to contribute to knowledge about The Prosecution Project has commenced the way family history researchers invest- the transcription of each state’s registers igate and understand the past within both of Supreme Court cases, with records an Australian and international context. relating to over 25,000 trials already entered into the database. The website, If you are interested in participating prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au al- please click on this link which will take lows members of the public to search you to the anonymous online survey. those criminal records that have already http://hermes-history.net/fhr/ been transcribed up to 1914. It also For further information please contact features a blog and other commentary Emma Shaw via the School of Education that provide contextual information about office on (02) 4921 7946, or via email: the history of crime in Australia. [email protected] or the However, to complete the transcription project supervisor, Dr Robert Parkes, process community volunteers are need- [email protected] ed. The volunteer process is relatively easy. Those interested can sign up on the This research has been reviewed and Become Involved page of the website. approved by the University of Newcastle Once signed up they will be able to view Human Research Ethics Committee high-quality images of the original (Approval No. H-2014-0353) 

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THE CATHERINE 1813–1814: AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE Anne McMahon (Member No.6463)

HE Catherine, a small ship of 325 under guard as well as for overseeing tons, accompanied by the Three their final embarkation on board the Bees, a considerably larger vessel prison ship. Tof 459 tons, were both anchored in Cork For these two voyages he received an harbour on 22 September 1813 to await advance of £13,000 for provisions, sub- the embarkation of Irish prisoners. The sistence, clothing, repairs and furniture. Catherine was to receive 98 women The sum included a fee for Dr Robert brought to Dublin from county gaols such HARDING, the long-serving physician at as those of Armagh, Galway, Longford, Cork, who attended the prisoners and Mayo and Tyrone. Four women, supplied medicines. At this departure 32 convicted in Cork, were to be sent down dozen wine was purchased at a sum of the river Lee from Cork city gaol to £681.10.0 for the masters of the two ships Cove. The Three Bees was to take on as the alcohol approved by government. board 219 male prisoners. All were The auditors found that it was extremely bound for Sydney. costly.1 Rev. Forster ARCHER, the Inspector The embarkation of the female and male General of Irish prisoners at the time, had prisoners on board the Catherine and the advised that the brigs and sloops engaged Three Bees was not completed until 27 to convey the prisoners from Dublin to October 1813 as pigs and sheep had to be Cove were frequently delayed in Dublin taken on board and a bulwark erected harbour awaiting suitable winds. The across the quarter deck on the male sloops in particular, used to ship the transport. As England and France were women, were small, two-masted vessels engaged in hostilities during the Napol- in which the women were confined in the eonic wars both the ships sailed for holds. Straw matting was spread over the Falmouth to join a convoy for their ballast of sand and gravel to serve as beds safety. The Catherine and Three Bees by night and a platform by day. The pris- departed Falmouth on 8 December 1813 oners received neither clothing nor blank- in convoy with two armed English ets as the 30 to 40 hour journey round the frigates the Niger and the Tagus. They east coast was considered short. In rough parted company when the frigates weather as water flowed over the decks engaged in battle against the French and saturated the straw the journeys frigate Ceres commanded by Baron de might extend to four days. If the trans- BOUGAINVILLE. port at Cove was not ready to receive the The Tagus pursued the Ceres over 238 prisoners they waited on the sloops in miles before opening fire within range. Cork harbour. The Agent of Transports, Lieutenant Richard SAINTHILL was responsible for 1 PP, HC, Third Report of the the conveyance of the prisoners to Cove Commissioners for Auditing Public Accounts in Ireland, 181415, VI, p.165.

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Her canons brought down the main top man for local transport in the colonial mast of the Ceres. With their prize the service. Under Gov. MACQUARIE’s English frigates sailed for Rio de direction she had been used to evacuate Janeiro.2 the Norfolk Island settlers to Van On resuming her journey the Catherine Diemen’s Land during February and had only a single fatality under the care March 1814. of surgeon PALMER. She arrived at Port Macquarie had been made aware by Jackson on 4 May 1814, two days before Lieutenant Governor DAVEY that the the Three Bees on 6 May 1814 whose southern colony was much in want of convicts were in a sickly and emaciated women at both settlements. He directed state with nine deaths and fifty-five men Lieutenant Jeffreys to transport fifty- sent to the colonial Hospital, principally seven women prisoners, recently arrived afflicted with scurvy.3 on the Catherine, to Van Diemen’s Land The Catherine sailed from Port Jackson on board HM Kangaroo which was lying on 12 July 1814 bound for the whale fish- idle in Sydney harbour. His instructions eries but her master, William SIMMONDS, were that Lieutenant Jeffrey was to return died at sea three days after departure. promptly. The brig was unable to sail Apparently she worked about the New during May 1814 but finally left for the Zealand coast as three years later Ensign Derwent in August. McCRAE told the BIGGE Enquiry that On 15 September 1814 the signal at Mt the whalers went ashore to sell firearms Nelson revealed a sail at the heads which and gun powder to the Maoris for pork announced the arrival of the HM Kang- and potatoes and, if needed, spars for aroo. She carried her first shipment of their vessels. He described the cruelty of fifty-seven women prisoners to the these men which included the capture of Derwent during the tenure in office of Maori women to be sexually exploited. Colonel Davey. A Proclamation was Ensign McCrae instanced the flogging of issued and settlers were invited to select a chief on board the Catherine until the servants from among thirty-nine women man vomited blood. The chief afterwards who remained at Hobart Town. Some took his revenge by plundering the salt were carried away into the bush. Others works belonging to the missionaries at married on short acquaintance. Twenty the Bay of Islands.4 were sent overland to Port Dalrymple.5 At Port Jackson the brig HM Kangaroo In 1814 the European settlement at the was in port. She had arrived from Eng- Derwent retained characteristics of an land in January 1814 under the command encampment. Cattle roamed the roads of Lieutenant Charles JEFFREYS RN breaking down the paling fences into who was accompanied by his wife, Jane. gardens. Small acreages of wheat and The brig was then engaged as a merchant- barley had been planted. Settlers hunted kangaroo for the table. Bushrangers accosted travellers for arms and 2 http://www.jenwilletts.com/Convict% ammunition. There were continued 20Ships.htm 3 Charles Bateson, The Convict Ships, pp .200–-201. 4 John Ritchie, Ed. Evidence of the Bigge 5 Robert Knopwood, Diary 1803–1838. Ed. Reports. Vol. 1, oral evidence. Melbourne, Mary Nicholls, Hobart, THRA, 1977, Heinemann, 1971, p.165. p.187

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rounds of visits to welcome new arrivals. Dinners and balls were held on board the ships in harbour which were able to host the festivities. UNDERTAKERS The Kangaroo remained at Sullivans OF HOBART Cove while Lieutenant and Jane Jeffreys Vol. IV enjoyed the hospitality of the colony. Following a sojourn of five weeks the brig dropped down the river late in October on her return to Port Jackson. As a naval officer Lieutenant Jeffreys entertained a high idea of his status. He saw himself as vastly superior to the merchantmen. He had been accompanied by Jane Jeffreys to Van Diemen’s Land Index to which was contrary to Macquarie’s H C Millington Pty Ltd orders. Both had remained in the colony an inordinate length of time thus incur– Funeral Records ring considerable cost to the treasury. Part 5 Macquarie was unimpressed by Jeffrey’s November 1955 – behaviour. November 1960 On her return to Sydney HM Kangaroo $25.00 + $4.80 p&p was commissioned to undertake two fur- ther journeys to Port Dalrymple and Hobart This new index continues the Town during 1816 carrying more than Millington series 200 prisoners. Meanwhile Macquarie’s annoyance grew towards further delays Part 1 Apr 1925 – May 1937 which occurred under Jeffrey’s com- $22.00 + $4.80 p&p mand. The governor had come to view Part 2 May 1937 – Mar 1944 him as a useless officer. At the end of $22.00 + $4.80 p&p 1817 the brig was sent back to England Part 3 Mar 1944 – Mar 1950 which she reached in March 1818 where $15.00 + $4.80 p&p she was paid off.6  Part 4 Mar 1950 – Nov 1955 $25.00 + $4.80 p&p All members are entitled to 10% discount.

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JOHN ASBURY AND THE LEMON SYRUP CASE Lou Daniels (Member No.3646)

MONGST the 1600 or so men Catherine arrived as a convict on the Sir and women who held licences to Robert Seppings on 8 July 1852. A public houses in Hobart up to Catherine was sentenced to transportation 1880, there are stories worth telling. for seven years at the Old Bailey on 24 Many publicans came to Tasmania as November 1851 for stealing a gold watch convicts and made good. Some did very from the person, in other words, picking well and then lost it all. John ASBURY’s pockets, for which she had already served is one such story, with a final flourish three months. She claimed to be married, that would make a good television and had been ‘on the town’ for two years, program. Perhaps he has a famous a euphemism that usually implied pros- descendant who could discover him on titution. She was recorded as 22, and a Who do you think you are? plain laundress.3 They had one daughter, 4 The 1841 British Census shows John Caroline Elizabeth, born 24 May 1854. Asbury, aged 12, born Middlesex, living In August 1857, by transfer from Robert with his father Thomas, a porter aged 38, RIDGE, John Asbury became licensee of and his brother Alfred aged 7, in Phoenix the ‘Garrick’s Head’ in Liverpool Street,5 Street, St Giles, Finsbury, London. and remained so until December of the John Asbury came to Van Diemen’s Land next year. Clearly he was attracted to the as a convict on the Maria Soames, ‘Emu Tavern’ in Liverpool Street, owned landing on 9 August 1850, after 103 days by John BONNEY, and he moved there at sea, from the Downs. He was because the previous tenant, James Lloyd convicted at the Old Bailey on 3 April CLEARY, was insolvent. Unfortunately 1848 for stealing a purse. He had a the assignee of the estate was not avail- previous conviction for which he served able to consent to the transfer in Novem- ber 1859,6 so John had to wait until six months in Newgate Prison. He was 7 22, a labourer, stood 5’5” tall with a fresh December to gain his licence. No doubt complexion, could read and write and he had been running the pub long before was single. His father Thomas and that under permission from the brother Alfred were from St Giles. The magistrates. Surgeon’s report described John as very In December 1861 when his application good. He had no recorded colonial was heard he was in New Zealand. 1 offences. Mr. Graves pointed out that he [John] had On 2 May 1853, by then a constable aged taken a trip to the diggings to try and 22, he married Catherine ADAMS, also make a fortune and would be back by aged 22, in St Georges Battery Point.2 3 CON 41/1/43 and CON19/1/10 4 1 CON 33/1/96 and CON14/1/41 RGD 33 Hobart Births 912/1854 2 RGD 37 Hobart Marriages 356/1853; 5 Mercury, 5 August 1857 Permission to marry was granted on 6 Hobart Town Courier, 8 November 1859 18 October 1852 7 Hobart Town Courier, 2 December 1858

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Christmas. Mr Crisp said he appeared for England, arriving 16 September 1854. a number of clients similarly situated. He James was 34, an agricultural labourer. argued that the Act did not contemplate a His wife Mary was 32, Sarah 13, John 12, temporary absence from the colony as a Caleb 10, Winifred 7, James 5, and ground of objection, and that if a man left Hannah 3.10 his wife and family, his goods and the great bulk of his property, there was a John Asbury and Winifred Dalwood had sufficient guarantee that he intended to three children; Mary Alice born 28 May return, and that his house would be 1866, and twins John Thomas and James properly conducted in his absence. Alfred on 11 November 1868. The family probably crossed Bass Strait in After some discussion the Bench decided 8 February1869 after the quarterly licenc- in favour of the application. There John ing meeting at the beginning of the stayed with little cause for notice until month. James Alfred died in Melbourne 1869. in 1869 aged 9 months. Caroline Asbury, On 13 October 1865 the Hobart Town John’s elder daughter, now aged 16, Advertiser reported a case of obscene married William Henry BROWN in 1870 language against two young women, Jane in Melbourne.11 CHITTY and Winifred DALWOOD. On 8 April 1869 the Melbourne Argus re- The offence was supposed to have occur- ported that Winifred Dalwood and John red at the door of the ‘Emu Tavern’. The Asbury were before the Supreme Court in girls were accused of using obscene Melbourne charged with feloniously language towards two constables. John receiving. On 12 April 1869, p.5 c.4, the Asbury and his wife, who was absent Argus printed this description of the trial: from the colony at the time, feature in the case. Constable FLETCHER was accus- A very nice party of criminals was ed of making the charge out of sheer committed for trail from the City Court revenge and ill-feeling. John Asbury on Saturday. They were Francis Cleary gave evidence, as Dalwood was in his and William Anstead, who had hung service, and Chitty had been previously. about a warder at the Melbourne Gaol named Cosgrove on the night of the 8th of He and a series of witnesses refuted the March until they found opportunity to rob charge, but the magistrates fined the him of everything he had; and two others, women five shillings and costs. John Asbury, landlord of the Commercial In May 1869 he transferred the licence Hotel, Little Bourke Street, and Winifred for the hotel to John BANKS.9 By then Dalwood, a woman who lives with him as his life had made a significant change. his wife, who were charged with Catherine Asbury had not returned from receiving a part of the property – viz.; a her journeys, and John began a relation- gold watch, value £20, knowing it to be ship with Winifred DALWOOD, who stolen. If the evidence of a girl named had been in his service in 1865. Cleary, sister of one of the prisoners, is to be believed, the men who robbed Winifred was born in England, one of ten Cosgrove sold the watch, chain and children of James Dalwood and his wife Mary DUNSTANE. The family came to 10 Tasmania on board the Maitland from Nominal Registers of the living and disposal of immigrants , etc. – SLTX/AO/MB/143 Series CB7/16/1 8 Mercury, 3 December 1861 11 Caroline died in 1891 at Williamstown, 9 Mercury, 3 August 1869 Melbourne, aged 37 (3500)

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locket to “the master of the Commercial” Possum, a ferry running between Circular for £2. Certain it is that the female Quay and Milsons Point. According to prisoner induced a sailor to take the an Australian Dictionary of Biography watch to Launceston, and endeavour to entry on Dean, the marriage was ‘soon a get it sold at auction. But the man failure, with much mother-in-law thought it over a little, came to the trouble’. On 8 March 1895, Dean was conclusion that it was stolen, and so arrested and charged with attempting to carefully restored it to Dalwood without murder his wife by poisoning her. The having attempted to sell it. Some days case became a sensation, known as the after this a detective induced the woman Lemon Syrup Case. Dean was found to confess that she had the watch concealed, and that Asbury knew all guilty and sentenced to life, but this about it. He found the article sewn up in caused a sensation, and Caroline and bed, and prosecutor at once identified it Mary were accused of a conspiracy. A as his. Royal Commission was held into the case, focussing on the characters of the This is why Asbury gave up his licence in two women, the suggestion being that Hobart a month later. He had left Hobart they concocted the poisoning themselves. and taken a house in Melbourne. Winifred was sentenced to six months in In the midst of the commission John prison and Asbury to three years. Asbury dramatically appeared and Winifred moved to New Zealand before claimed Mrs Seymour as his wife. The John was released from prison. There she Sunday Times (Sydney), of 26 May 1895 married twice, firstly to William headlined his intervention, and even had SHAKESPEARE on 19 August 1871,12 an illustration of the moment he and then to James Playfair TAYLOR on confronted her. The article is long and 4 December 1887.13 detailed, and reported Asbury’s evidence: John Asbury’s story took a dramatic turn The appearance of the next witness was nearly thirty years after he separated from one of the most dramatic incidents in this Winifred. His long lost wife, Caroline, enquiry. He was a decrepit old man of gave birth to a daughter, Sarah Annie, in 70, leaning on a stick, and was led into the room, sworn and placed in the Melbourne in 1874 by the ex-convict witness’ chair. “Your name?” said Mr Denis GAYNOR.14 In 1894 this daughter, Pilcher. “John Asbury, sir (generally now known as Mary SEYMOUR, known as Asprey),” came the response, in married George DEAN, master of the clear tones. Mr Pilcher (Mrs Seymour having been brought into the room): “Do 12 NZ 1212/1871 you know this lady?” Witness (con- 13 NZ 3347/1887 fronting her): “She is my wife, sir.” Mrs 14 VIC Births 10564. Seymour immediately retired in an He arrived on the 19 January 1848 on the apparently distressed state of mind. Navarino from Kingston in Ireland. He The witness then proceeded … to give a was a native of Tipperary, transported for felonious assault. His ticket of leave was history of his life, from which it appears granted on 24 April 1849. On 22 May that when a youth in England he was 1875 the Mercury reported that Denis convicted of stealing 2s. 8d. from an Gaynor, “a notorious pickpocket “had employer, and sentenced to seven years been sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour imprisonment. After serving a portion of for stealing a purse from a woman on the the sentence we was sent to Tasmania ship Tamar. under a ticket of leave, and arrived in

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Hobart on August 19, 1850. Was Argyle Street some woman made a rush employed by Judge HORNE, the Police at us, and Maguire caught her and they Magistrate, and then entered the police, rolled together in the road. The woman became a detective, and rose to the rank had a long dagger, and proved to be my of sergeant, remaining in the force for wife. “You have had a lucky escape, over six years. The woman now known Jack,” said Maguire, throwing the knife as Mrs Seymour arrived in Hobart in over some fences into the Domain. I did 1852 by the ship Sir Robert Devon, and not charge her with attempting to stab he married her on May 2, 1854, at St me. George’s Church, Battery Point. On Asbury went on to relate that he leaving the police he took Webb’s Hotel, afterwards came to Melbourne, where he afterwards the Derwent and Garrick’s took the Centennial Hotel, Little Bourke Head Hotels, and then the Emu, where he Street, and whilst there his wife came and remained for about eleven years. His wife took away their daughter Carrie, then once ran away from him with all his about 12 years, and vowing vengeance money. He had bought 2s 6d worth of upon him. He then agreed to allow her arsenic while at the Emu to poison rats. one pound a week. Shortly afterwards he His wife helped him and knew all about was arrested for stealing a watch which the arsenic. The chemist had told him he had bought from a young man in the how little would kill a man, and he told bar, and before he could get bail his wife his wife. The bottle was three parts full took possession of the premises, where he when he had finished rat poisoning and found her “behind the bar serving like a he had put it behind some Old Tom lady, with her daughter beside her, and bottles in the bar. Mr Pilcher: Did the house full of people.” He afterwards anyone else know it was there? No sir. received a sentence of three years for After that you had a quarrel with your stealing the watch, and which ruined him, wife? A serious one. Anything happen as he had been making a fortune at the to you after the row? Yes, I was taken all time. Since his release he has been of a sudden with pains inside, and was “buried in the bush as cook, shepherd and seized up with vomiting and purging at drover” under the assumed name of John the same time. Jenkins, and now had a camp under some He then gives details of his illness and rocks in the North Shore. He had seen recovery and his wife’s disinterest. The his name on a piece of newspaper in account continues: connection with this case, and after making enquiries made a statement to Mr After returning from a trip to New Goddard. This closed the most Zealand… I said, “Carrie, I hear that you sensational incident of the enquiry up to have not been acting the clean potato.” date. She said, “What do you mean?” I said, “You have been carrying on with The local connection meant that the someone. I will be able to tell you Mercury on 28 May 1895 reported on something about it on Monday morning.” inquiries made in Hobart to do with the This was on Saturday. She said, “How case. It notes: dare you?” and flew into a passion. … I Nothing is known of Mrs. Asbury occupied a separate room that night, and appearing before the bench in Hobart on on Monday she cleared out, leaving some any charge. She is said to have been of her jewellery, but taking all the money. rather a “giddy young woman”, was fond On the Saturday evening as I was out of dress and jewellery, and gratified her walking with Detective Maguire up tastes to the utmost limits of her purse;

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but beyond the offence for which she was transported no convictions stand against her name in this colony’s criminal Index to records. And also: The Examiner The Emu Hotel was situated in Liverpool Street on the north side, between Murray Index to Births, Deaths & Marriages and Watchorn Streets. It was a very well- from The Examiner Newspaper known house. In the time of the Asburys from 1900–1965 a thriving trade was done, and while they were its tenants they did very well Now available— financially. Volume 1, 1900–1910 $27.00 Volume 2, 1911–1920 $33.00 Two commissioners agreed that Mrs Volume 3, 1921–1925 $24.00 Dean had administered the poison to Volume 4, 1926–1930 $27.00 herself with no intention of taking a fatal dose. One dissented. However Dean was Volume 5, 1931–1935 $27.00 granted a free pardon and released in June Volume 6, 1936–1940 $35.00 1895. That was not the end of his Vol 7, 1941–1950 - Births $30.00 troubles, for after a furore in state Vol 8, 1941–1950 - Deaths $30.00 parliament, Dean was again arrested, Vol 9, 1941–1950 - Marriages $30.00 confessed in writing, and on 24 October Vol 10, 1951–1955 - Births $28.00 was sentenced to 14 years for perjury. Vol 11, 1956–1960 - Births $30.00 Mary divorced George on 1 September Vol12, 1951–1955 - Deaths $30.00 1896 and married again. Dean was Vol 13, 1956–1960 - Deaths $30.00 released in 1904 and died in 1933.15 Vol 14, 1951–1960 - Marriages $30.00 Even in death John Asbury was Vol 15, 1961–1965 - Births $30.00 controversial. He died in January 1803 Vol 17, 1961–1965 - Deaths $30.00 by falling down the stairs at 14 Victoria Place, Liverpool Street, Sydney, Index to The Examiner Obituaries necessitating an inquest held at the & Funerals: 16 1941–1950 $25.00 ‘Builders’ Arms Hotel’ on 7 January. 1951–1960 $25.00 No post mortem was required and the cause of death was given as intemper- ance. He was recorded as married, an old Available from age pensioner aged 74 who was born at TFHS Inc. Launceston Branch Stepney, London about 1829.  PO Box 1290 Launceston TAS 7250

Plus $13.50 pack 1–4 TFHS Inc. Members less 10% discount, plus $13.50 p&p 15 Martha Rutledge, ‘George Dean (1867- 1933)’; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981 16 Series 2763 item X2086 roll 343

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TWO MERCHANTS OF HOBART TOWN Sally Rackham (Member No.6258)

N the 2009 June edition of connections with other distant members Tasmanian Ancestry an article was of the family. It was through one such published about John PERKINS, a link via Ancestry’s site that I became freeI settler, merchant and MHA in Hobart aware of the error (the edition of the Town in the mid-1800s.1 He had arrived journal was published while we were in Van Diemen’s Land in 1838, married overseas). I apologise for any confusion, Emily WATCHORN and within a few and would like to set the record straight years was in partnership with his father- by publishing John Perkins’ photograph in-law William Watchorn in a family as published in a book of the members of drapery business. William died the Tasmanian Parliament, in 1854 and in due course together with a photograph of John’s nephew, confus- a portrait of John by an ingly also named John unknown artist, probably Perkins came to the painted around the time colony to join the of his marriage to business. The firm Emily in 1840. The then became known portrait together with as Perkins and one of his wife Emily Nephew, with a painted by Benjamin branch of the shop in DUTERREAU was, Franklin as well as until recently, hanging the city store on the in the Colonial Gallery corner of Liverpool at the Tasmanian Mus- and Watchorn Streets. eum and Art Gallery. The article, which de- When I wrote the original tailed my connections to article I did not have a lot the Perkins family, of detail about the lives included a picture of John Perkins senior of the two Johns. Now John. Sad to say the 1812–1877 that the marvellous photograph that was Trove newspaper collec- centred on the first page of my account tion is online, I thought I might be able to was John Perkins the nephew, and not find more about them. I think the two John Perkins senior, the main subject of men are of interest in that they represent the account. The picture was correctly ordinary free settlers whose lives in the captioned in the article and there is no colony were very different from their doubt that it is John Perkins—just the families in rural Wales from whence they young one. I find that one of the came. Tasmania provided them with both pleasures of family history is making financial and political opportunities. The newspaper records in the period bet- 1 Sally Rackham, ‘The Road to Sandy Bay ween 1838 and 1877 when John Perkins Leads to Hell on Sundays’, Tasmanian the elder died, give an indication of his Ancestry, Vol. 30 No.1, pp.11–16

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increasing involvement in both the polit- the correct and exemplary character of ical and religious life of Hobart. His first your general good conduct as a citizen.2 five years in the colony were spent in In September 1854 John was noted as Launceston where he established his first part of a committee to organize a drapery shop with Henry BENNETT and testimonial for Denison who was to be son Henry. The three men had travelled transferred to Sydney, but in all these to Hobart Town on the same ship, and I reports he was just one of many names. assume they had always planned to work The first record of John seeking public together. During the early years the office was in 1855 when he unsuccess- supplies for the shop fluctuated with the fully stood for election to the Municipal arrival of ships, but their business Council in Hobart. He was elected to the gradually expanded to include grocery Chamber of Commerce in 1860 and was items and additional staff. Frequent Chairman of the organisation for a while. thefts from the shop were recorded in the The big move came in 1861 when John newspaper in this time though John’s wrote a letter to the Mercury saying he name does not appear. In 1843 John dis- had been ‘solicited by a numerous and in- solved the Launceston partnership and he fluential body of Electors to stand as a and Emily moved to Hobart to be a Candidate’ for Parliament. He was duly partner in Watchorn & Perkins. elected to the Lower House of Parliament Apart from advertisements for the drapery for the seat of Kingborough. The shop, John’s name was often in the news- Mercury editorial noted of him: papers during this period. Court cases If Mr. Knight [his main opponent] carry were reported at length with John off the victory, we shall regret the defeat frequently listed as a jury member. In- of a man so thoroughly practical in his creasingly he became involved in polit- views and possessing so large an amount ical affairs, for example he was among of public spirit as Mr. Perkins.3 many petitioners seeking ‘legislation by The Parliament was short-lived, but when representation’ in 1845. He was among he was persuaded to stand for Parliament others who sought the ‘continuation of a second time in January 1863 he was transportation under modified terms’ at elected unopposed. Among other things the beginning of Lieutenant-Governor in Parliament he agitated for funds for the DENISON’s time in 1847. By 1851 John building of the road to the Huon. John seems to have changed his opinion on remained a Member of the House of that topic as he was listed as a supporter Assembly until 1866. of John DUNN, who was reportedly opposed to all forms of transportation. In In relation to his cultural and religious 1853 he was among those writing an life the newspapers noted that he was open letter to Augustus EARDLEY- elected to the Royal Society of Van WILMOT (son of the late Lieutenant- Diemen’s Land in 1851, where he Governor Sir John Eardley Eardley- regularly attended the meetings. He was Wilmot), the Police Magistrate in Hobart, a member of the Independent Church in which they thanked him for (Congregationalist) in Hobart, and in the assiduous and conscientious manner in which you have applied yourself to the 2 Colonial Times and Tasmanian, 28 June discharge of your important duties, and to 1853, p.3 3 The Mercury, June 1861

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November 1856 he was the superintend- education and when his father retired in dent of their Sabbath School when new 1876 he joined the family drapery and enlarged premises were opened in business. John Perkins the elder died Liverpool Street. The building was to be soon afterwards. In October 1880, known as the Berea Sabbath School, the ‘consequent upon his early departure for name probably chosen by John who had England’ Herbert sold his share of the attended the Welsh Berea Independent Perkins & Nephew business to James Church near St Davids, Pembrokeshire as WHITE and Robert WALKER, ending a child. The original Independent Sab- the family connection to the Liverpool bath School in Hobart Street store. had been established From all accounts in 1833 in a cottage therefore John the adjacent to the new elder seems to have premises. There have been a hard-working, been conflicting re- public spirited and ports on whether John politically aware established the actual family man. The Sunday School, but younger John would this newspaper ac- seem to have had count seems to clarify these same attributes the matter. although the Mercury His drapery business reported him as being appears to have been a man who held successful, however in ‘frequent pleasure 1868 there is a parties ... [during his] newspaper report of term of office as the firm of ‘Mr J Mayor of Hobart Perkins, The Empor- Town’ and generally ium, Liverpool Street’ the impression is of a being declared insol- John Perkins jnr more adventurous 1841– vent so there were personality. some difficult times. Whatever the John the younger was born in problem, it appears to have been resolved Pembrokeshire in 1841 and appeared in as the firm continued to trade, both in the 1861 census as an apprentice draper Hobart and Franklin. He was sufficiently in Cheltenham, England. In 1862 he emi- wealthy to choose to educate at least two grated to Australia on the Swiftsure and of his sons Henry (b. 1848) and Herbert in 1864 he married Matilda Harriet LEE (b. 1851) in England. Henry who in Melbourne. They had six children who attended Edinburgh University, qualified were all born in Hobart, the last of whom as a doctor and returned to work in arrived during his tenure as Mayor of Hobart for many years where his name Hobart in 1876. The young John no appears in newspaper reports of doubt mixed socially with his many accidents, but by 1891 he was recorded in cousins when he arrived in Tasmania. He the UK census as living in Devon. developed interests in organizations such Herbert returned to Hobart after his as the Working Men’s Club as well as

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many other civic matters in conjunction Provincial Grand Master. For the next with William GIBLIN who was married few years John the younger is constantly to his oldest cousin Emmely. William reported in the Mercury, not only in was elected to Parliament in 1869 and relation to Council matters, but also deal- became Premier of Tasmania in 1878 and ing with assorted companies such as the again from 1879–1884. There seems to British and Tasmanian Charcoal Iron be little mention of John in the Mercury Company and the Tin Smelting Comp- until 1871 when he had an accident which any. He served on the Committee of the received press coverage. He and a friend Working Men’s Club and, like his uncle, frequently hired a boat ‘to bathe … taking joined the Royal Society of Tasmania. a fowling piece with them, for the In February 1878 after his term of office purpose of shooting shags and seagulls’. as Mayor finished, John left Hobart for a On this occasion he was wounded when trip to Europe where he, ‘Hon. P. O. Fysh the gun went off accidentally. The shot and Mr. William H. O. Archer, of lodged in his right shoulder but was not Brickendon, were … appointed commis- fatal. Accounts of his improving health sioners to represent Tasmania at the together with letters in relation to the approaching Paris Exhibition’. He had safety of weapons appeared in the advertised he would ‘accept of pur- newspaper for some weeks. The chase—Tasmanian woods, minerals, employees of the family firm even coals, cereals, wax specimens of fruit’, presented him with a piece of furniture as presumably for display at the Paris a ‘souvenir in gratitude for his late Exhibition, although the Mercury did not providential escape from death’. report on the event. John returned to He was perhaps more of an entrepreneur Hobart in October of that year, but one than his uncle, purchasing shares in at senses that he was planning to return to least two ships, the Lady Emma and the England, with the newspaper reporting Wolverine in 1872. They were involved that ‘he had not re-entered public life’, in the coastal trade around Australia in although he was on a committee organ- the early 1870s, exporting timber as well izing Tasmanian items for display in the as presumably importing goods for sale in Sydney Exhibition the following year. In the family shops. At some stage he must December 1878 he advertised the have sold his interest in the Lady Emma, Franklin branch of Perkins and Nephew but in 1879 immediately prior to his to let, and in May 1879 he put a cottage, departure for England, it was reported ‘currently let to Mrs Perkins’ up for sale. that he purchased the wreck of Lady Mrs Perkins was probably his uncle Emma which had run aground on the John’s second wife Elizabeth but one Acteon Reef, and he subsequently sold hopes he was not making her homeless whatever could be salvaged from her. by his actions. In June 1879 he dissolved In 1874 he nominated and was duly his partnership with Herbert Perkins in elected to the Municipal Council. In the business of Perkins & Nephew after December of the following year he was what he said in the Mercury had been elected Mayor, a position he held for the ‘eight years in the business’. By next two years. He was also involved in September of that year his ‘centrally the Oddfellows, being appointed Pro- situated, elegant, and very commodious Deputy GM in 1875 and subsequently the family residence, at 187 Macquarie-

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street, as recently re-constructed and renovated’ was for sale as the newspapers reported that he was ‘returning to DONT FORGET! England’. I did not find the reference to his departure from Tasmania but by the Membership for 2015 –16 commences on end of 1880 he was reported as ‘no longer 1 April 2015 through to 31 March 2016 resident in the island’ when a writ was Current membership issued by the Hobart Town Tin Smelting subscriptions expire on Company against him for payment of 31 March 2015 £24. This appears to be the last record of activity relating to John Perkins the You will have received a Membership younger in Tasmania. In the 1881 UK Renewal Form in the census he was living in Fishguard, December edition of Tasmanian Ancestry. Pembrokeshire and listed as a ‘retired Additional forms may be downloaded from merchant’ but he did not remain in our Website: www.tasfhs.org

Wales. In subsequent census records he If you have not paid your was listed as living in London and then in Membership Renewal, please complete Sussex. If he was able to retire at 40 and mail your cheque to: years of age with several young children to support, it would seem that his time in Tasmanian Members: Treasurer at your local branch Tasmania had been profitable. A final comment in relation to this Interstate and Overseas Members: younger John Perkins was made in the State Treasurer, TFHS Inc. Council meeting in December 1878 and PO Box 326 Rosny Park TAS 7018 probably sums him up nicely—’th e pleasing recollection of Mr. Perkins’ uniform, kind, and courteous demeanour, and the generous hospitality he had shown …’.

So the two John Perkins, uncle and ** Payment by Visa or MasterCard should nephew, left their mark in different ways be mailed direct to the in the life of mid-19th century Hobart. State Treasurer Perhaps neither were ‘great men’ but both demonstrated that merchants could con- Late payment may result in a delay in tribute much to the public life of the the delivery of your June 2015 colony. Many of John the elder’s family Tasmanian Ancestry remained in Tasmania, but the family of Tasmanian Ancestry Subscriptions the younger John seem to have returned (Societies and Organisations) to the UK and with him their connections Payment of Invoices is now due. to Tasmania have faded.  Please mail payment direct to the State Treasurer PO Box 326 Rosny Park TAS 7018

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RIVER DERWENT DROWNINGS 1900–30 Compiled by Laurie Moody (Member No.5835)

check of the Federation Index 1903 revealed ninety-eight drowning KNOWLES Charles d. 9 January/Aged 51 (1bTPI) A deaths in the River Derwent SMITH Australia George Charles d. 3 February/Aged 19 between 1900 and 1930 A number were b. 25 September1883 Tasman recorded near South Arm, and only two JACKSON William d. 1 July drowning deaths are recorded in the (10+bTPI) vicinity of New Norfolk. SEYMOUR Frederick d. 1 July/Aged 20 SEYMOUR George d. 1 July The following is a list of these people. I (2bTPI) endeavoured to locate their dates of birth CRAWFORD Robert d. 29 October by searching both Tasmanian Pioneer (7bTPI)

Index (TPI) and the Federation Index 1904 (FI), but in some cases this was IBBOTT Henrietta May d. 1 May/Aged 35 unsuccessful. Age information in a HADFIELD Henry William d. 27 October/Aged 45 number of cases was obtained from b. 4 July 1859 Launceston inquest records provided by the Archives JONES Phillip David d. 29 October/Aged 39 (1bTPI) Office of Tasmania, but only appeared to WARD George d. 4 November/Aged 31 cover the period 1900–09. (10+bTPI)

Legend 1905 2bTPI: indicates two possible birth records see TPI GRUNDY John d. 2 November (1bTPI) 2bFI: indicates two possible birth records see FI 1mTPI: indicates a possible marriage record see TPI 1906 1mFI: indicates a possible marriage record see FI COULSON Olive Jean d. 16 March/Aged 17 b. 17 Mar 1889 Hobart 1900 ROWAN Elizabeth d. 17 April/Aged 35 WILLIAMS Frederick Benjamin d. 1 January/Aged 44 JACK Alice Rachel d. 12 July/Aged 45 UNKNOWN d. 23 January (1bTPI) WILLIAMS George d. 11 July (10+bTPI) 1907 SCULLY Joseph d. 23 October/Aged 35 IVEY Walter Ernest d. 18 February/Aged 23

1901 BARNETT David d. 4 April UNKNOWN d. 5 July SHEFFIELD Charles d. 27 September/Aged 37 BATT William Henry d. 7 October/Aged 29 MORGAN Elliott Stanley d. 26 October/Aged 26 b. 11 June 1872 Hobart b. 3 Aug. 1881 Spring Bay

SUTCLIFFE Charles d. 7 October 1908 (3bTPI) JONES George d. 26 February/Aged 58 WATCHORN Walter Evelyn d.29 November/Aged 44 (10+bTPI) b. 23 November 1885 Hobart RICHARDS Frederick William Wayne d. 12 March 1902 (1bTPI) VERRELL Walter d. 1 February LEWIS Amy d. 7 April/Aged 18 CHEVERTON William d. 19 July/Aged 42 (4bTPI) HENRY Montague d. 21 September ARNOLD Mary Jane d. 15 May/Aged 53

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1909 O’ROURKE John James d. 16 September GRIMMOND Alexander John d. 3 April (2bTPI) b. 26 Oct. 1884 Hobart CHAPMAN Joseph Henry d. 18 October CORBETT James d. 28 April/Aged 50 (1bTPI) (2bTPI) MEEHAN Thomas d. 3 June 1917 (2bTPI) EVERETT Arthur Lacey d. 12 March WRIGHT Edward Alfred d. 9 November (1bFI) 1919 WARE Walter George Ralph d. 22 April 1910 b. 12 April 1877 Clarence ENMAN Theresa d. 4 February SEYMOUR Arthur d. 12 June HUGHES Herbert Benjamin d. 21 February (2bTPI) KINGSLEY Michael d. 6 March b. 23 June 1866 Hobart 1920 PAYNE Roy d. 8 April HAMPTON Jerimiah d. 2 February b. 20 February 1877 Ulverstone 1911 UNKNOWN d. 17 May TOWNLEY William Buxton d. 18 February TUCKWELL Harold Stanley d. 5 July WILLIAMS Joseph Holland d. 25 February HENNIGAN John d. 28 July (10bTPI) HAMILTON George Douglas d. 17 December LARGE William Horatio John d. 11 March b. 5 March 1911 Anglesea St S. Hobart b. 29 May 1884 Hobart HILL Eric George d. 19 December CHAMBERLAIN John d. 14 April b. 16 March 1899 New Norfolk (4bTPI) (1bFI) THILL Eliel Herbert d. 31 December 1921 YOUNG Tasman d. 7 July 1912 b. 24 January 1900 Southport DURWOOD George d. 19 February DOWNIE Douglas d. 24 September TIBBALLS Stephen d. 13 November (2bTPI) 1913 1922 UNKNOWN d. 5 June HUDSON Frank Herbert d. 18 August CLARKSON Elizabeth d. 23 June b. 4 December 1883 Hobart 1914 MASON Janet Smith d. 19 October STALKER James d. 13 January (1bTPI) (2bTPI) (1bFI) MILLS Tasman John d. 3 December SCHULTZ Allen Gabriel d. 7 March b. 11 January 1905 Battery Point b. 13 June 1899 Hobart GATESHILL Harriet d. 8 December WILLIAMS William Alfred d. 7 March 1923 b. 14 May 1904 South St Battery Pt. JOHNSON Walter d. 2 March SNEDDEN Thomas Beveridge d. 10 October b. 11 January 1903 Melville St 1915 SUCKLING Kate d. 17 March RISBY Arthur Edmund d. 24 January ARNOLD John d. April b. 6 March 1857 Hobart (5bTPI) STUMP Henry d. 27 February CLARK Henry d. 20 July (2bTPI) (10bTPI) EMSLEY Frederick John d. 4 March MORTON Royden William d. 13 November CHIFFEY William John d. 30 October b. 2 May 1907 Augusta Terrace Hobart b. 16 July 1883 Hobart 1924 JONES Percival d. 18 December JEFFREY Donald Fitzpatrick d. 2 February (3bTPI) b. 10 November 1893 Hobart 1916 SPROULE Edwin d. 7 July McLEOD John Albert d. 24 April b. 9 July 1877 Kingston WILSON Henry d. 5 June SPROULE Vernon d. 7 July (10+btPI) b. 15 June 1910 Battery Point

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1925 WHITTINGTON Herbert Richard d. 28 November b. 26 February 1879 Hobart

1926 JOHN Garnet Bevan d. 17 August b. 14 December 1910 North Hobart PORTHOUSE Walter Ernest d. 13 November b. 11 November 1877 Hobart

1927 HOGAN Frederick Thomas d. 19 November b. 2 December 1903 Argyle Street Hobart MANN John d. 27 December (3bTPI) OSBORNE Edward Owen d. 27 December b. 21 October 1896 Hobart PARKER Raymond Cameron d. 27 December b. 17 November 1902

1928 HODDER Sydney Paul d. 10 June CLARK Kenneth Huntley d. 26 November

1929 WRATHALL Herbert Vincent d 16 November

1930 LOMAS Joseph d. 29 September

bap. 17 March 1852 Hobart Town 

Fortunately not everyone who ventured into the river met the same fate, as these photographs from the Illustrated Tasman- ian Mail, 8 February 1934, show—Ed.

ROYAL HOBART REGATTA 1934

Top right Trans-Derwent swim for women. Misses C Fuglsang (Sandy Bay Club) and M. P. Newman (Cornelian Bay) who finished first and second in the women’s Trans-Derwent.

Bottom right Trans-Derwent swim for men, left to right: D. Newman (third), L. Gluskie and R. Purves (dead heat first). Gluskie recorded the fastest time of 31 minutes 40 seconds with a 4 minute handicap.

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ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BURIAL GROUND NORTH HOBART 1829–1872 Leonie Mickleborough (Member No.20)

N 27August 1828 Lieutenant- downward spiral of decay’.3 In 1902 it Governor George ARTHUR was reported that blankets were ‘hung out O granted land for a Presbyterian to dry on the railings of grave enclosures’ burial ground in Hobart Town. This and ‘bits of dirty carpet, and matting’ followed a request on 5 February 1828 covered ‘tombstones or lay scattered from the colony’s first Presbyterian about the graves, together with sacking Minister, Reverend Archibald Mac- and old tins’— and a ‘quagmire of soapy ARTHUR. The Reverend gentleman water at the back of the caretaker’s specified a ‘certain piece of land on the cottage’ was also almost overpowering. north side of the New Town-road’. A large portion of the burial ground was Arthur had ‘much pleasure in according overgrown with weeds and briars and it to the request’, and MacArthur was was difficult to locate some of the instructed to call at the Survey Office and headstones, while the small area of ‘hard, ascertain some suitable land from the smooth, grassless earth’ served as a Surveyor-General.1 One acre of land, brushing place for the carpets and mats of which later became Church Street North the adjoining cottage. In 1915 the area Hobart, was duly transferred to the still required ‘some method of Presbyterian Church. beautifying’.4 The first burial in the new site was that of In 1934 the Hobart Presbyterian Burial Judith SMITH on 14 January 1829. The Ground Vesting and Improvement Act last burial, the 704th, was on 6 October vested the land with the Hobart Corpor- 1872, the same year the public Cornelian ation for conversion to a park or play- Bay Cemetery opened as an alternative to ground. The original Presbyterian Burial church burial grounds.2 Many remains Ground for St Andrew’s (now Scot’s were then removed from St Andrews Uniting) Church was transferred to the Burial Ground for re-interment at Hobart City Council in 1935 and renamed Cornelian Bay. St Andrews Park—after St Andrew, the Following closure, the Presbyterian Patron Saint of Scotland. In October Burial Ground soon fell into a ‘chronic

1 Mercury, 24 September 1902, p.6 2 Mercury, 17 September 1902, p.7; TAHO NS229/1/64 St Andrew’s Burial register 3 Katheryn Bennett (text), A guide to (incomplete) 14 Jan 1829–Oct 1872; Hobart’s historic cemeteries and Burial There may also have been burials from St Ground (Hobart City Council, 2000), p.7 John’s Presbyterian Macquarie St, see 4 Mercury 17 September 1902, p.7; TAHO NS1651/1/44, 1840–64. Mercury 11 May 1915, p.2.

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1982 the Council spent $30,000 on ALLAN, Ewen improvements.5 ANDERSEN, Jessie Mary ANDERSON, Amelia A large granite monument, erected in ANDERSON, Charlotte Atkinson 1937, to the memory of the colony’s ANDERSON, Elizabeth Scottish pioneers and to mark their first ANDERSON, James Cochrane burial ground is still prominent, and ANDERSON, James Taylor MacArthur’s large sandstone monument ANDERSON, Janet is one of three still in situ on the flat ANDERSON, Janet Cochrane grassed area. Two sandstone headstones ANDERSON, John are also still in place, one of which marks ANDERSON, John Lillie the head of the grave for Reverend James ANDERSON, Margaret BELL, the first minister at St John’s ANDERSON, Moses Presbyterian Church, while about 100 ARCHER, Frederick A remaining headstones have either been ARCHER, John Thomas mounted on or are propped against the ARCHER, William old sandstone perimeter walls. Very few ARCHER, William Septimus remaining headstones are legible, and one BAILEY, Isabella has a modern bronze plaque attached. BAILEY, Samuel This is for Anne THOMSON (née BAKER, William YOUNG) who was born 7 August 1759 BALLANTINE, Harriett Mary in Peebles, Scotland. Anne’s two BALLANTINE, Robert Dundas husbands, Hugh MURRAY and John BARCLAY, Isabella Thomson both died in Edinburgh. BARCLAY, Margaret According to the plaque, Anne arrived in BARCLAY, William Hobart Town on 14 February 1823 with BARNARD, John her children and friends, and died on 20 BARRETT, Charles Norton December 1838. BARRETT, John The former burial ground is now an BARRETT, Mary Ann Norton BARRETT, Sarah Ann attractive grassed park with children’s BARRETT, William play equipment, seating, shrubs and trees, BARTLETT, Carolina Isabella and also a view towards the city. BARTLETT, Henry Herman BELL, James Rev Tombstones and Memorial Inscriptions of BLAIR, Catherine Tasmania CD Rom 2010 TFHS Inc. listing BLAIR, Catherine pp.524–30 BLAIR, Margaret BOYLE, George BRAND, Henry BRAND, James BRAND, Robert BROCK, Alexander BROWN, Agnes Drummond C BROWN, Jane Harrison BROWN, John 5 BRUNTON, Janet Stefan Petrow, God’s neglected acres: a BRYCE, Frances history of cemeteries in Tasmania, 1804– BRYCE, Robert 1992 (1992), p.161 TL.PQ 363.75 PET

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BURY, Richard DAVIDSON, Henry GALBRAITH, Marion BUTTERWORTH, John Wm DAVIDSON, William Crawford Euphemia DAVIS, James GARDEN, Alex CAMERON, Hugh DIXON, Alice Isabella GARDEN, Henrietta CAMPBELL, Jane DIXON, Francis Ernest GARDEN, John Hill CARMICHAEL, Caroline DIXON, Joseph GEISS, Mary Louisa Amelia DIXON, Margaret Louisa GERRAND, James CARMICHAEL, James DOBSON, George Frederick GIBSON, John CHAMPION, Hester DONALDSON, Isabella GIBSON, Thomas CHAMPION, Maria DOUGLAS, Niel GIFFNEY, Henry Ruxton CHAMPION, Peter DOUGLAS, Peter GOLDIE, David CHAMPION, William DRINKWATER, Jane GOLDIE, James CHAMPION, William, Snr DRYSDALE, Margaret GOLDIE, Mary CHAMPION, Williameina Jane DUGALL, Thomas Rev GOVER, Charles CHASTON, Susan DUNCANSON, Janet GRACIE, William Wallace CHAUDINET, Margaret DUNCANSON, Robert GRAFF, Ernest CHAUDINET, William DUTERRAU, Bengamin GRANT, David CHEYNE, Alexr Esq GRANT, Susan Campbell CHRICHARD, Hannah EASON, John GRAY, George Grant Dawson CLARK, Alexander EDWARDS, Alexander GRAY, William Thomas CLARK, Alexander EDWARDS, Janet GRINGELL, Jane CLARK, Andrew EDWARDS, Thomas GUTHRIE, John CLARK, Hellen ELMER, Harriett CLARKE, Alexandrena Scobie HALL, Matilda Ann CLARKE, Charles William S FACY, Eliza HAMILTON, Ann CLARKE, Georgina Margaret FACY, Hannah HAMILTON, Beatrice CLARKE, Helen FACY, John HAMILTON, Thomas, Snr CLARKE, Hugh Robert FACY, Mary HAWKINS, Thomas MacKenzie FACY, Peter HAY, Janet CLARKE, Jane FACY, William Peter HAY, John CLARKE, Jane Jessie FAHRENSTIEN, Alice HAY, Robert Mitchell CLARKE, Jane MacKenzie FAIRBAIRN, Christiania HENRY, Alfred CLARKE, Joseph FAIRGRAVE, Archibald HENRY, William CLEGHORN, John FARMILO, Philip HOGG, David COCHRANE, Margaret FEATHERSTONE, John HOLLINSDALE, Ellen COCHRANE, William Frederick HOLLINSDALE, Ellen COCHRANE, William FERGUSON, Agnes HOLLINSDALE, Mary Jane COLLINS, Adeline FERGUSON, Agnes HOPKINS, George Fred COLLINS, Robert Green FERGUSON, George HOY, David CONOLAN, Annabella FERGUSON, Sarah HOY, Janet CONOLAN, Mary FLEMING, Hamilton HUNT, Richard F COOMBS, Stephen FRASER, Christina HUNTER, James CRIPPS, Sarah FRASER, Hannah Janet HUTCHINSON, Elizabeth CROOKE, Elizabeth Frances FRASER, James Lloyd Susan CROOKE, James FRASER, James Major HUTCHINSON, Francis Howe CROOKE, Sarah Maclanachan FRASER, Susannah HUTCHINSON, George Josiah CROOKE, William HUTCHINSON, James CUMMING, Adam GALBRAITH, Daniel Weyman CUMMING, Christina GALBRAITH, John HUTCHINSON, Lucy

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HUTCHINSON, Theophilus MacDONALD, James Grant McLENNAN, Mary HUTTON, Alex David MacDOWELL, Catherine Jane McNAUGHTON, Margaret Kerr HUTTON, George MacDOWELL, Edith Alice MENZIES, Archibald HUTTON, Kate MacDOWELL, Thomas MILLER, Emily W HUTTON, Thomas Alex MacDOWELL, Walter MILLER, Frederick Ebenezer MacFARLANE, Archibald MILLER, William (Henry) JACKSON, Catherine Jane MacFARLANE, John Boyd MILWARD, (none) JACKSON, John MacKAY, Helen Gordon MILWARD, John JACKSON, Margaret MacKAY, Jane MILWARD, Maria Margaret JENNINGS, Henry William MacKAY, Margaret MINNIS, Samuel Orr JERVIS, Davida MacKENZIE, Jane MITCHELL, James JHONSON, Ada Charlotte MacKENZIE, Robert MITCHELL, Louis JHONSON, Robert MacKENZIE, Robert MITCHELL, Robert JHONSON, T W MacKIE, Bartholemew MOODIE, Aflick JHONSON, Thomas MacMILLAN, Archibald MORGAN, Elizabeth Mrs JHONSON, William MacROBIE, Anne Mrs MORRISON, Alexander JOHNSTON, Caroline MacROBIE, Elizabeth Murray MORRISON, Sarah JOHNSTON, James MANN, James Mitchell MORTON, Eliza JOHNSTON, Janet MANSON, Elizabeth MORTON, Fanny JOHNSTON, Jessie MANSON, Mary Ann MUDIE, Charles Mayleston JOLLEY, Martha MARTIN, John MUIR, Marion MARTIN, Robert MUNRO, Alexander Thorburn KEAN, John McALLAN, Donald MUNRO, Charles KENNEDY, Angus McCLEANAN, Anne MUNRO, William KENNEDY, Ann McCONNELL, Fanny MUNRO, William John KENNEDY, John McCONNELL, John J MURRAY, Ann KENNEDY, Margaret McCONNELL, William Foster MURRAY, Elizabeth KERR, John MLC McCULLOCH, James MURRAY, Hugh KERR, Robert J P McCULLOCH, John Alexander MURRAY, James Ramsay KILLMAN, John McCULLOCH, Martha Jane MURRAY, John KRAMER, Augustus McDONALD, Catherine McDONALD, Christian NAPIER, Peter LAING, David McDONALD, John (Saddler) NEILL, Helen LAWRIE, Archibald McDONALD, Robert NEILL, James LEVACK, Angus McINTYRE, Margaret NEILSON, Anna LEVACK, Elizabeth McINTYRE, Peter NEILSON, Helen Disher LEVACK, Mary McINTYRE, Sarah NEILSON, Robert L LILLIE, Georgina H McK---, B NEILSON, William LINDSAY, Elizabeth McK---, R NEWSAM, Thomas George LIVINGSTON, Margaret McKAY, Catherine NICHOLS, Margaret Jackson McKAY, Charles NICHOLSON, Emily LOCKWOOD, Elizabeth McKAY, Charlotte NICOLSON, Jane LOVITT, Elizabeth McKAY, Mary Ann NORTON, Mary Ann LOVITT, Robert Frederick McKAY, Rose Alice LOVITT, William Henry McKENZIE, Jane MacKenzie OFFICER, Jane Wood LUMSDEN, Elizabeth McLACHLAN, Archibald OFFICER, Margaret MacARTHER, Mary McLELLAN, John OFFOR, Elizabeth Craig MacDONALD, Elizabeth McLENNAN, Effy ORGILL, John Bowman McLENNAN, John

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PATERSON, Donald SEABROOK, Maria WHYTE, Jessie PATON, Marion SINCLAIR, Christian WHYTE, Sarah PENMAN, Jessie SMITH, Catherine WIGGINS, William Henry PERIGAL, Mary SMITH, Charles WILKENSON, John PERRIMAN, Sarah Emily Ann SMITH, Elizabeth WILKINSON, Edward PERRY, Eliza Martha Banks SMITH, James WILKINSON, Elizabeth PINES, Elizabeth SMITH, Robert WILLIAMSON, Charles PRIESTLEY, Catherine SMITH, Robert WILLIAMSON, William PROPSTRING, George SNOW, William David Surgeon Frederick SNOWDEN, George Nedwons WILLISON, Martha Matilda PROPSTRING, George SPENCE, Thomas WILLISON, Thomas Frederick P STEWART, Alexander WILSON, Alexander PROPSTRING, Georgina STEWART, Alexander WISEMAN, Alice Yates STEWART, John WISEMAN, Elizabeth PROPSTRING, Georginia STEWART, John WISEMAN, Jane Bispham STEWART, John WISEMAN, John PROPSTRING, Rachel STEWART, Philadelphia WISEMAN, William Champion Georgina STEWART, Rebecca WOOD, Robert PRYDE, George STRACHAN, David WOOLLEY, Eliza Freme PRYDE, Lilias STRACHAN, Isabella Smith WOOLLEY, Frances PUNSHON, Ann Yates STRACHAN, Jane WOOLLEY, Joseph Hidstone PURKISS, Arthur Jackson SWINTON, Annie WOOLLEY, Mary PURKISS, Catherine Annie WOOLLEY, Mary Facy PURKISS, Elizabeth TAYLOR, Albert TAYLOR, Lucy YATES, Ann  RANKIN, John THOM, Sarah Jane REID, Elizabeth Lumsden THOMSON, Alice REID, George THOMSON, Anne Mrs REID, George THOMSON, Eliza Fordyce REID, Matthew THOMSON, Susannah REID, William THOMSON, William ROBB, William TOBY, Fanny ROBERTS, Mary TOMLINS, Alice Stanley ROBERTSON, Jessie TROTTER, Mary ROBERTSON, John TUBBY, Harriett Utting RODD, Henry Thomas TUBBY, Priscilla RODD, Janet TULLOH, Elizabeth RODD, Jessie TULLOH, William Francis RODD, Jessie Mary TURNBULL, Mary Ann ROWLAND, John TURNBULL, Susanna Mrs ROWLAND, Sisly RUSSELL, William WALKER, Charles WALKER, Charles SARGEANT, Henry WALKINSHAW, William SCOBIE, Andrew WATT, Robert Graham SCOBIE, David WEBB, Elizabeth SCOBIE, Eliza WHERRETT, Mary SCRIMGER, George WHITE, Allison SCRIMGER, Margaret WHITE, Jane

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GENES ON SCREEN Vee Maddock (Member No.1875)

RE your documents stylish? common. By assigning a style (e.g. Can you change the colour and Heading 1) to the first heading, and then A font of every heading at the assigning it to each heading after you can click of a mouse? Can you decide you be certain they will all be the same. If, prefer Arial 12 to Times 11 and not have half way through you realise the headings to go through and change paragraph by need to be 2 points smaller to fit a pres- paragraph, adjusting back the quotes and cribed page length, then you can select headings etc.? It is possible, and in long everything that is a set style (e.g. head- documents or documents that are going to ing1), modify it and they will all change. be published it is almost a necessity to Word comes with a large number of use Styles. styles and style sets (fancy, elegant, Styles are simply a set of formatting newsprint, etc.) You can use these as a instructions that are applied to sections, base for your styles or create your own. paragraphs, words or characters in One of the best by-products of using MSWord (and other word processing styles is that you can convert them into a software). Word is style based, meaning table of contents with a couple of clicks. that every time you adjust the formatting As your work your document, apply it makes a style modification based on heading styles in layers. For example that. So without knowing it you can have you could have Heading 1 for the Family five dozen styles in a document. There is name, Heading 2 for the individual, normal which is usually Times New Heading 3 for the places they lived, Roman at 11 point, left justified, no Heading 4 for the list of their children. indent. Then there might be normal plus After completing a couple of chapters font size 18pt and colour blue where you can go to TOC settings and tell it to you’ve changed it for a heading. Then include headings 1–4. Your table output another with centred justification, a would be generated automatically with smaller font, indented, where you’ve put page numbers like this: in a quotation. This is fine for a one page Smith 8 document with probably two headings, John Smith 9 one quote and the rest the same normal Smithfield 15 text. But when you get to the third page Children of John and Sarah Smith 21 and want to put in another quote, can you Jones 24 remember exactly what you changed? James Jones 25 Was it Arial 15pt or Georgia 14pt? Most Like anything on a computer the best way th people by the time they enter the 15 to learn it is to play. Grab a document, heading have at least three differences find the styles pane on the home ribbon between them. Not only is it faster to and start clicking. There are many apply a style than to direct format, chan- tutorials online, and of course some ging the size, font, colour etc. manually, things change according to your version but direct formatting bloats the document of Word. One good tutorial is http:// add size making saves longer and errors more balance.com/usersguide/styles.htm  TASMANIAN ANCESTRY March 2015 243

WHAT IS THAT PUBLICATION ABOUT? Maurice Appleyard (Member No.4093)

UMEROUS publications are OATLANDS DISTRICT HISTORIC- named in the Acquisition Lists AL SOCIETY—CHRONICLE No. 8 N of the various Branches of our This issue of the Chronicle was published Society but on some occasions the title in September 2014. does not give a clear indication of the Featured articles are: subject matter. The following details of a A Glimpse of the Past (Melton Mowbray few in the Hobart Branch Library may & Oatlands). help to describe some of the more Jack Weeding; Author and Historian. obscure titles and deserve a look. The Battle of Windsor: Precursor to a Perhaps the publication may also be one way trip to V.D.L. (North held in your local library? American Prisoners to VDL). Oatlands Fire Brigade (From 1856). Dr. Hercules Bradshaw Moorhead (late of Oatlands, 1868–1944). LIVING THEIR DREAM—Stories of St. Peters Pass in the 1930s–The People. hope and survival Christopher Luke Rooney (An early VIP An A4 publication of 270pp is the 2014 of Oatlands, b.1852 d.1909) revised version, written by John Day as a John Robinson (from whence did you tribute to his forebears. come). th John introduces eight 19 century immi- For King and Country—The Barwicks at grants who established lines of descent to War. his parents and then develops his family Extracts from the Diary Belonging to tree, describing the life and times that James George. (continued from Vol. 6, influenced their development. classical information about various The immigrants were: places in VDL). John More CAMERON and Leonora LENON who arrived in Hobart Town IN SEARCH OF GEORGE IFE on 2 November 1837; A5 paperback, was self-published in 2014 Alexander DAY who arrived in Mel- by Anna McCloy. bourne on 13 February 1849; Annie CAIRNS who arrived in Geelong The author’s research into her ancestor on 5 January 1853; George Ife developed into finding John Heath DRAPER who arrived in material on two other ancestors; Robert Melbourne on 30 October 1853; Blake and Edward Bowden. Beata STRATTON who arrived in Mel- Information about the early life of Hobart bourne on 23 October 1854; Town, Bothwell and the Wesleyan faith Robert MYERS who arrived in Mel- are interwoven with appropriate images bourne on 25 August 1854; and of the family members and their Norah WOOLFORD who arrived Port locations. Adelaide on 16 February 1879.

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WANDILIGONG: A Valley Through early development of the town and sur- Time rounding district. A4 book of some 103pp is the 2010 revised edition published by the Wandi- IN SEARCH OF THE LOST SHAM- ligong Reservation Society in Victoria. ROCK—The Duggan (O’Dubhagain) The history of this little Valley is long, Family of Ireland and Related Families many hundreds of thousands of years in This A4 publication of 315pp was fact. The original inhabitants, the Jaitha- produced in 2010 by Vaughan Duggan. mathang people, seamlessly integrated their lives into the land, the flora and It is an account of the origins of the fauna. Duggan Family of Melbourne from its This came to an abrupt end when the known relatives from County Limerick, pastoralists, then gold miners profoundly Ireland in the 1700s to the present day. changed the land by introducing feral Whilst this branch of the family is traced animals and exotic plants, gold mines and from its origins in Ireland through dredges, thereby degrading the natural England to Australia, many other related environment. families are listed, spanning almost every This book is primarily about us, the continent in the world. ‘white people’ and how we affected the Families covered in more detail include: Valley as we fought to control the land MIDGLEY; Yorkshire, England and each other in an attempt to carve out CHRISTMAS; Sussex, Surrey and a living. … Hampshire, England and Australia The chapters, written by many different NEWLAND; Hampshire, England people, take us from the foundation of ROSENBERG; Germany, Australia, Wandiligong, past the gold mining days USA, Israel and the growth of the town, through STEINHARDT; Germany depression and revival, right up to the MEWBURN; Lancashire, England and present day. … Australia It contains an index of names and is WALL; Wexford, Ireland supported by many images of people and MORI; Ehime Prefecture, Japan places from the early days of the area. TAKAOKA; Ehime Prefecture, Japan INOUE; Ehime Prefecture, Japan. KILMORE: Those That Came Before The book contains an extensive alpha- A4 book of 153pp was published in 2007 betical index and is well supported by a by the Kilmore Historical Society. number of family trees and high quality Kilmore is a town in Victoria, 60 kilo- images of family members and relevant metres north of Melbourne. It is content- locations.  iously claimed as Victoria’s oldest inland settled town. This extensive work contains many artic- les, by various authors that describe the district and the early pioneers. It contains a name index and general index and is well supported with images of people and places associated with the

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ACCESSIONS—Books *AA United Kingdom; Ordinance Survey Leisure Guide—Wessex. [912 AUT] *Baker, A; Dean Dynasty *Blatchford, R; Family and Local History Handbook. *Duggan, Vaughan; In Search of the ‘Lost’ Shamrock: The Duggan (O’Dubhagain) Family of Ireland and its Descendants and Related Families *Herren, M D; Ancestral Trails. [929.3 HER] *Jackson, G W; Settlement By Sail—19th Century Immigration to New Zealand *Knight, H; Kilmore—Those That Came Before. [Q994.53 KNI] *McLoy, A; In Search of George Ife. [Q929.2 IFE] *Millett, G B; The First Book of the Parish Registers of Madron, in the County of Cornwall. [Q9293109423] Oatlands DHS Inc; Oatlands District Historical Society Chronicle No. 8. [P994.63 OAT] *Purtscher, Joyce (comp); Notes from the Kingborough Police Magistrate Letterbooks 1855–1875 and 1873–1888 concerning charitable allowances *Raymond, S M; The Somerset Electoral Register, Eastern Division, 1832. [929.34238 RAY] *Reid, O; History of the North West. [Q994.65 REI] *State Records, South Australia; Ancestors in Archives. [929.39423 STA] TFHS Inc. Launceston Branch; The Tasmanian Mail—A photographic index, 1935. [Q929.38 TAS] *Wandiligong Preservation Society; Wandiligong—A Valley Through Time. [Q994.55 WAN] Wedge, J H; The Diaries of John Helder Wedge, 1824–1835. [994.62 WED]

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ACCESSIONS—BOOKS *Close, Marguerite, Historic Stanley Port Arthur Historic S M A, Collecting Memories, Connecting Community and Convict Sites *Smith, Patsy Adam, Historic Tasmania Sketchbook TFHS Inc. Hobart Branch, Church Records of Tasmania. Vol 1 Index to Miscellaneous Catholic Deaths

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TFHS Inc. Launceston Branch, The Weekly Courier. Index to Photographs, Births, Deaths & Marriage Notices & Personal Notices. Vol 14 1924–1926 TFHS Inc. Mersey Branch, An Index to the Advocate – Personal Announcements 1981 covering NW Coast of Tasmania THFS Inc. Mersey Branch, An Index to the Advocate – Personal Announcements 1983 covering NW Coast of Tasmania TFHS Inc. Mersey Branch, In Loving Memory Series. Monumental Inscriptions of Latrobe District Cemeteries Book 2 TFHS Inc. Mersey Branch, In Loving Memory Series. Monumental Inscriptions of Deloraine District Cemeteries Book 1 TFHS Inc. Mersey Branch, In Loving Memory Series. Monumental Inscriptions of Deloraine District Cemeteries Book 2 TFHS Inc. Mersey Branch, In Loving Memory Series. Monumental Inscriptions of Deloraine District Cemeteries Book 3 *Then and Now 100 years of Schooling in St. Helens, 1874–1974

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ACCESSIONS—Computer Disks TFHS Inc.; Tasmanian Ancestry Volumes 1–20 Wyatt, D M; Tasmania’s Expeditionary Force World War One–1914

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35th Annual Conference Tasmanian Family History Society Inc.

10:30 a.m. Registration and Morning Tea 11:00 a.m. Welcome by the President of Hobart Branch Presentation of ‘Early Bird’ Prize by President and Winner of Journal Article Competition by Patron. 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. Maureen Martin Ferris—The life & times of Sarah Mitchell. 11:45 – 12:15 p.m. Jai Paterson—A wider view of family history – Tasmanians to New Zealand 1855–75. 12:15 p.m. Lunch 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Judie Hastie—Suffering from the Shifting Disease – The Hood family. 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Robert Tanner—’Tasmanian Ancestry’ – thirty years of family history stories. 2:00 p.m. Annual General Meeting incorporating presentation of the Lilian Watson Family History Award by Patron. To be followed by short Executive Meeting. 3:30 p.m. A tour of the East Coast Heritage Museum.

Book Stalls will be open during the day.

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Registration Form Closing date for registration and payment is 6 June 2015 The Branch Treasurer PO Box 326 Rosny Park TASMANIA 7018 Phone: 03 6244 4527 email: [email protected]

Name/s ...... Address ......

I/we will be attending on Saturday, 20 June 2015 ……...…. 18.00ea. (Morning Tea and Lunch) I/we will be attending the Dinner …….……………..……… $32.00ea. My cheque/money order is enclosed for $ ...... OR debit my Master Card  VISA  (Please tick)

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Please indicate by ticking options you will be attending:

 Saturday Conference

 Saturday Dinner at Bark Mill

 Sunday Cranbrook Tour

Register before Thursday 7 May 2015 and be in the draw for the President’s Early Bird Prize.

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Options for AGM Conference

Saturday 20 June 2015 – Dinner 6:30 p.m. Venue – Bark Mill Tavern & Bakery 7:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner Roast pork, lamb or beef, hot roast vegetables, peas, cauliflower, crusty bread & salads Dessert – apple crumble, pavlova or fresh fruit salad Self-serve tea & coffee

Guest Speaker: – Swansea identity, Noel Stanley

Sunday 21 June 2015

Cranbrook Tour

Meet at the East Coast Heritage Museum at 10:00 a.m.

This free tour, in own cars, includes Gala, the Gala Kirk Uniting Church, Glen Gala and the Amos Cemetery, Cranbrook House Craigie Knowe and vineyard and the Glen Gala wine outlet.

Hobart Branch gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Maureen Martin Ferris and the committee of the East Coast Heritage Museum and Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical Society, and offers sincere thanks for all their planning and organisation of the conference.

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